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A. J. Smitherman
1883–1961
United States
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Biography
Andrew Jackson Smitherman (December 1883 - June 1961) was an American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist. Smitherman began his journalism career in 1908 in Muskogee, Oklahoma where he wrote for the Muskogee Cimiter before founding the Muskogee Star in 1912. He later founded the Tulsa Star after moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1913.
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