When was the African-American journalist which was among the majors of "Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities" born?
Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities was an anthology of biographies of African American women edited by Monroe Alpheus Majors published in 1893 in Chicago. Majors sketched the lives of nearly 300 women, including Edmonia Lewis, Amanda Smith, Ida B. Wells, and Sojourner Truth. Majors began to compile the book in Waco, Texas in 1890. He hoped to show the worth of black women for themselves and as an expression of the value of all African Americans. A significant omission from the book was Harriet Tubman. The book sought to shape contemporary attitudes and historian Milton C. Sernett hypothesizes that including Tubman would invoke memories of the pain of slavery.
Martha Rountree Martha Rountree (October 23, 1911 – August 23, 1999) was an American pioneering broadcast journalist and entrepreneur. She was the creator and first moderator of a public-affairs program, first on radio as "The American Mercury" from June 24, 1945, and as "Meet the Press" on the NBC television network from November 6, 1947. She remains the only female moderator in the over-six-decade history of the show.