St. Louis Argus

[1] Nannie Mitchell, William's wife, helped found the paper but worked uncredited for many years, becoming president decades later.

[4] It watched the goings-on in the African-American community and published the stories that would also help the influx of southern blacks who were pouring into St. Louis deal with the "vagaries" of northern segregation.

[6] Herman Dreer wrote Black history articles,[7] and U.S. Grant Tayes served as a columnist for the newspaper in the 1930s, with the column Oh, Tempore!.

[10] Other editors included F. F. Martyn (1912-1915), Phillip H. Murray (1915-1917), William Harold King, Mary Harmon-Ferguson, Minnie Ross,[5] Otis Thompson,[11] The Argus earned the coveted Russwurm award, named for John Brown Russwurm, one of the founders of the first black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, which launched in 1827.

The paper had suffered almost two decades of decline, and Hasan hired Antonio French and George Jackson to modernize operations.