Plummer Bernard Young Sr. (1884-1962)

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North Carolina native Plummer Bernard (P. B.) Young moved to Norfolk in 1907 to work at the Lodge Journal and Guide, the newspaper of an African American fraternal organization. He bought the paper in 1910, expanded its scope, and renamed it the Journal and Guide. By the 1940s, it was among the most widely circulated African American weeklies in the nation, and Young became one of Virginia's most influential black citizens. His newspaper championed racial equality, urging better housing, schools, jobs, and municipal services for African Americans. Young, a trustee of Howard University and Hampton Institute, also chaired the advisory board of what is now Norfolk State University.

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Henry Lewis Suggs, ed., The Black Press in the South, 1865-1979 (Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1983). Henry Lewis Suggs, P. B. Young, Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism in the New South, 1910-1962 (Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1988). H. Lewis Suggs, “Black Strategy and Ideology in the Segregation Era: P. B. Young and the Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1910-1954,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (April 1983), 161-190. Peter Wallenstein, “Young, Plummer Bernard,” African American National Biography. “Journal-Guide Publisher Dies,” Virginian-Pilot, 10 Oct. 1962. “P. B. Young and His Newspaper” (editorial), Virginian-Pilot, 11 Oct. 1962. “Death Ends Guide Publisher’s 64 Years in Journalism,” Norfolk Journal & Guide, 13 Oct. 1962. “President Lauds Publisher’s ‘Great Contributions,’” Norfolk Journal & Guide, 13 Oct. 1962. “Story of Journal and Guide is Story of P. B. Young,” Norfolk Journal & Guide, 25 Oct. 1975.