Richard W. Thompson was a journalist and public servant in Indiana and Washington, D.C. He was at various times an editor or managing editor of the Indianapolis Leader, the Indianapolis World, the Ind
Thompson c. 1902
Indiana State House, built in 1888
Booker T. Washington, 1905
Tuskegee campus, 1916
William Calvin Chase
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William Calvin Chase was an American lawyer and newspaper editor. A native of Washington, D.C., he attended Howard University. As well as gaining admission to the bar, he edited the Washington Bee, a
Richard W. Thompson (journalist)
…role in the support of Washington against the attacks against Washington by William H. Ferris in 1903. He also had a long-running antagonism with William Calvin Chase of the Washington Bee. Richard W. Thompson was born in 1865 in Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky. His father was a minister of the African Methodist…
William Calvin Chase portrait shadow and light
The Washington Bee – May 29, 1886