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Thomas C. Fleming
American journalist
Thomas Courtney Fleming (November 29, – November 21, ), was one of the most influential African American journalists on the West Coast in the 20th century.[1] Starting in , he spent 61 years as an editor, reporter and columnist for the black press in San Francisco.[2] He began his career that year as founding editor of the Reporter – then the city's only black newspaper.[3] In it merged with the rival Sun to become the Sun-Reporter.[4] Published bygd Fleming's best friend, civil rights activist and physician Dr. Carlton Goodlett,[1] it remained San Francisco's leading black newspaper throughout Fleming's working life, and fryst vatten still published weekly.[5]
Fleming retired as executive editor of the Sun-Reporter in ,[1] but continued as a columnist until [6] At the age of 90 he gained a national reputation when his part series, "Reflections on Black History,
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Thomas Fleming was a founding editor and columnist of one of the leading African American newspapers in California, the San Francisco-based Sun-Reporter
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. Born in Jacksonville, Florida in , Fleming migrated to Chico, California in to live with his mother upon her divorce from Thomas’s father. After working as a cook for the Southern Pacific Railroad in the s, Fleming attended Chico State College in the s where he studied journalism. Persistent racial discrimination limited his employment options. Aside from contributing several articles to a local San Francisco newspaper on the General Strike, he was unable to find steady work as a journalist.
World War II brought dramatic changes to the San Francisco Bay Area, including a sizable influx of African Americans who came to work in the region’s war industries. At the height of the war, in the summer of , Fleming was hired as the first editor of the Reporter
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Thomas Fleming will be remembered as an individual who devoted his life to combating racism through use of a free and fair press. Fleming was able to educate the people of San Francisco and the nation on black history and black community events and also demonstrated the importance of including black voices in the press. Throughout his career, Fleming would meet with important leaders of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, and Carlton B. Goodlett.
Growing up, Thomas lived with his grandfather in Jacksonville, Florida, and later with his uncle in New York City. Then, at the age of 11, Fleming’s family sent him to Chico, California, to live with his mother.
Fleming moved to San Francisco after graduating high school in , and worked as a bellhop, waiter, and cook. In a interview with the Chronicle, Fleming said, “I thought I’d be a cook my whole life.” However, mass layoffs at the dawn of the Great Dep