Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928 (Personal Name)

His Black and white ... 1884.

His T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American agitator, c2008.

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed January 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fortune, Timothy Thomas; civil rights activist, newspaper editor, publisher; born 03 October 1856 in Marianna, Florida, United States; editor of the New York Globe (1881); established as dean of black journalists by the Globe and its successors, the New York Freeman and the New York Age; published Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South, a study of race (1884); published The Negro in Politics, accusing the Republican Party of contemptuous treatment of blacks (1886); sole owner, editor, and chief printer of the Freeman (1884); sold the Freeman and became editor of the Age (1889-1914); ghost writer for Booker T. Washingtonian (1895); special agent of the Treasury Department to study race and trade conditions in the Philippines (1902); assumed editorship of Marcus Garvey's Negro World (1923); died 02 June 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)