Dunjee, Roscoe, 1883-1965

found: Freedom for all, forever, c1981:frame on film of tombstone (Roscoe Dunjee, b. June 21, 1883, d. Mar. 1, 1965; Dunjee was an African-American and founder of the newspaper The black dispatch in Oklahoma City, Okla.)

found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Dunjee, Roscoe; civil rights activist, newspaper editor / publisher; born 21 June 1883 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States; earned extra money by writing stories for local newspapers; purchased a small printing plant in Oklahoma City (1913); printed the first edition of the Black Dispatch (5 November 1914), a paper targeting the growing black community in Oklahoma City; chartered Oklahoma's first NAACP chapter (1914) and later became close friends with the NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall; died 01 March 1965 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)