Howlett, John Homer

ID
1402
Nationality
American
Afro-American/Black
Occupation
Newspaper editor
Summary
Deafened at age 6; pupil at the Minnesota School for the deaf (under the name of Mark H. Howlett) and later in the Iowa School for the deaf (its first black student). In the 1890s, was editor of the Chicago Sunday Hero, the Afro-American World (Minneapolis), The Blade (Atchison, KS), The Protest (TX), Gazette (Oskaloosa, KS) and a press bureau in Chicago.
References
Notable Deaf Persons, p.109; Gallaudet Encyclopedia, vol.2 p.171; The Frat, Feb. 1942, p.3.
Dates
fl. 1890