Vincent Tubbs (1915-1989) was a leading African American journalist, who became the first black person to head a motion picture industry union.
By the time Tubbs turned 26 years old, he had risen rapidly within the world of African American newspapers.
Young, the paper's publisher, heard that Tubbs was talking to the Richmond Bureau chief of the Baltimore Afro-American and fired him.
[4] As a "lynch reporter," Tubbs could be called at a moment's notice to go to a remote location in the South, never sure if he would be able to find local transportation, lodging or anything resembling a hospitable environment.
In the early 1940s, Tubbs was spotted by a sheriff in the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas, who ordered him into his patrol car and took him to the chief of police.
After leaving Jet, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked for the publicity department at Warner Brothers Studios.