Frank Adams on his Father, Oscar Adams, Sr.

Frank Adams on his Father, Oscar Adams, Sr.

Frank Adams shares memories of his father, Oscar Adams, Sr. An influential and sometimes controversial figure in Birmingham's Black community, the senior Adams was editor and publisher of the Birmingham Reporter newspaper (1906 - 1934); Grand Chancellor of the Alabama Knights of Pythias fraternal organization; and national secretary-treasurer of the A. M . E. Zion Church extension department. From 1918 until his death in 1946, Adams contributed the weekly column "What Negroes Are Doing" to the Birmingham News.

Frank Adams's brother -- Oscar, Jr. -- would become a pioneering civil rights lawyer and the first African American Justice for the Alabama Supreme Court.

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