Charles Edward Russell
| Charles Edward Russell | |
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C.E. Russell, c. 1907
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| Born |
September 25, 1860 Davenport, Iowa |
| Died | April 23, 1941 (aged 80) Washington, DC |
| Occupation | Journalist, Writer, Politician, Civil Rights activist |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize, biography, 1928 |
| Relatives | Frederick Russell Burnham (first cousin); Howard Burnham (first cousin) |
Charles Edward Russell (September 25, 1860 in Davenport, Iowa – April 23, 1941 in Washington, DC) was an American journalist, opinion columnist, newspaper editor, and political activist. The author of a number of books of biography and social commentary, he won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas. Russell is also remembered as one of three co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Charles Edward Russell was born in Davenport, Iowa, a transportation center located on the Mississippi River on the far eastern border of the state. His father Edward Russell was editor of the Davenport Gazette, and a noted abolitionist. The Russell family were staunchly religious Christian Evangelicals, with Charles' grandfather a Baptist minister and his father a Sunday school superintendent and a leader of the Iowa Young Men's Christian Association.
Russells attended St. Johnsbury Academy, located in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, for his high school education and also worked under his father while at the newspaper.
Russell wrote for the Minneapolis Journal, the Detroit Tribune, the New York World, William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan, and the New York Herald. He was employed as a newspaper writer and editor in New York and Chicago from 1894 to 1902, working successively for the New York World, the New York American, and the Chicago American.
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