Oswald Garrison Villard
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Oswald Garrison Villard was an American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post. He was a civil rights activist, and along with his mother, Fanny Villard, a founding member of the NAACP. In 1913, he wrote to President Woodrow Wilson to protest his administration's racial segregation of federal offices in Washington, D.C., a change from previous integrated conditions. He was a leading liberal spokesman in the 1920s and 1930s, then turned to the right.
Oswald Garrison Villard
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The New York Post is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The Post also operates three online sites, NYPost.com, PageSix.com, a gossip site, and Decider.com, an entertainment site.
The New York Post was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father who George Washington appointed as the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury.
Alexander Hamilton appointed William Coleman as the newspaper's first editor in 1801; Coleman served in that capacity until his death in 1829.
William Cullen Bryant, the Post's most notable 19th-century editor
A New York City Subway passenger reading the New York Post in April 1974