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Owen, Chandler
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Owen, Chandler
Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 564 Includes: Bibliography1889–1967
Coeditor of the socialist magazine The Messenger and, later, Republican Party activist. Chandler Owen was born in Warrenton, North Carolina. Graduating from Richmond's Virginia Union University in 1913, Chandler Owen left the South for New York City to become a fellow of the National Urban League. He studied at the New York School of Philanthropy and then at Columbia University. During this time, he met another young migrant from the South, A. Philip Randolph. Randolph exerted a great influence over Owen, convincing him to sever ties with the Urban League and, in 1916, join the Socialist Party.The following year, Owen and Randolph coedited The Hotel Messenger, a newsletter of a local hotel and restaurant employees' union. A few months into their tenure, they criticized the union for overcharging its members ...
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Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 1138 Includes: Further Reading(5 Apr. 1889–2 Nov. 1967), journalist and politician, was born in Warrenton, North Carolina; his parents' names and occupations are unknown. He graduated in 1913 from Virginia Union University in Richmond, a school that taught its students to think of themselves as men, not as black men or as former slaves. Migrating to the North, where he lived for the remainder of his life, Owen enrolled in Columbia University and the New York School of Philanthropy, receiving one of the National Urban League's first social work fellowships. In 1915 he met another southern transplant, A. Philip Randolph, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. The pair studied sociology and Marx, listened to street corner orators, and joined the Socialist Party, working for Morris Hillquit's campaign for mayor of New York City in ...
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Source: American National Biography Online
Word Count: 1354 Includes: Bibliographyjournalist and politician, was born in Warrenton, North Carolina; his parents’ names and occupations are unknown. He graduated in 1913 from Virginia Union University in Richmond, a school that taught its students to think of themselves as men, not as black men or as former slaves. Migrating to the North, where he lived for the remainder of his life, Owen enrolled in Columbia University and the New York School of Philanthropy, receiving one of the National Urban League’s first social work fellowships. In 1915 he met another southern transplant, A. Philip Randolph, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. The ...
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