Thomas Morris Chester

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2013

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Chester was the first African American war correspondent working for a major daily paper, covering the U.S. Civil War. He also had a troubled relationship with the colonization movement, and spent years striving for equal rights for African Americans

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to the podcast I'm Tracy V Wilson.
0:46.4	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.8	Today we're going to talk about a man named Thomas Moritz Chester.
0:51.7	And he was the first African American War correspondent
0:55.3	working for a major daily newspaper.
0:58.0	And that's pretty much how you will see him talk about.
1:01.7	And most of the places where he is talked about.
1:03.9	Yeah, if you ever are looking him up online in a search
1:07.7	that's usually like the text that appears next to his,
1:10.7	next to the primary link or picture.
1:12.6	Yeah, that's pretty much how he's discussed often.
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