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  • Valentine's Day Crossword
  • Titanic Headlines, Titanic Questions
  • Hoover Dam
  • Journalists in History
    • Ernie Pyle
    • Robert St. John
    • Joseph Morton
    • Robert Cromie
    • Agnes Meyer and Katherine Graham
    • Walter Cronkite
    • Sigrid Schultz
    • Jack Denton Scott
  • March is Women's History Month!
  • Alcohol in American History - John Barleycorn Tells Some of His Story
  • As Relevant As Today- The Past Connects with the Present
    • Ignoring History is Irrelevant
    • Honoring a Veteran: Veteran's Day, November 11, 2012
    • December 1, 1958: The Day Chicago Cried with Our Lady of the Angels
    • Remembering the Vietnam War - 37 Years Present
    • Rebellion, Murder, and Voting Rights in Rhode Island
  • Words and Remembrance-May 1970 at Kent State in Ohio and Jackson State in Mississippi
  • Rub-a-dub-dub in Your Historical Bathtub!
  • The Freedom Summer Murders Changed American Racial Attitudes
  • To Beard Or Not To Beard - That is the Historical Question
  • Scarecrows Historically Speaking
  • Diversionary Thoughts for the Dentists Chair
  • Humans in History
    • Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo, Artists of Montmartre
    • Grandmother Clara Zetkin Speaks
    • High Stepping Ohio Horseman
    • Philip Teitelbaum Creates a Money Making Machine
    • The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake..
    • Poul le Cour
    • John Collier's Fight for Indian Rights and the First and Last Superintendent of Indian Affairs
    • Lt. Colonel Ely Parker, First Native American Commissioner of Indian Affairs
    • Clara and Henry Leffingwell - An English, American, and Australian Story
    • The Murderer and the Museum Curator - Nathan Leopold and Kirtland's Warbler
    • Wilbur Carr, the State Department, and Immigration - 1920-1945
    • Billy Sunday Preached His Prayer Pennant Willing Baseball Story
    • William Alden Smith, Michigan's Titanic Senator
    • Helen and Dickinson Bishop Survive An Earthquake and the Titanic
    • Faster Than Flames: Locomotive Engineer James Root Races the Hinckley Fire
    • Three Hot and Contentious Weeks in July 1925 - The Scopes "Monkey " Trial
    • The Confederados Become Brazilian, but Honor Their American Southern Roots
    • Fascinating Footnote: The Goosedown Divorce
    • Clara and Henry Leffingwell - An English, Australian, and American Story
    • The Molly Maguires - Trailblazers or Terrorists?
    • Lt. Uriah Phillips Levy Fights Prejudice and Saves Monticello
    • The Stavisky Affair - Sasha the Suave Scammer
    • General Santa Anna, Chicle, and Chewing Gum
    • James J. Metcalfe, Gangbuster, Reporter, Poet
  • Women Along the Historical Way
    • Lucena Brockway Adapts to Life in the Keweenaw Copper Mining Country of Lake Superior
    • Ida Tarbell- "Bachelor Soul." Transitional Woman, or Both?
    • SOE Agent Andree Borrel Lived Several Lifetimes in Her 24 Years
    • Ruth Becker's Faith Helped Her Survive the Titanic and Life Beyond
    • Clara Zetkin Speaks Against Hitler in the German Reichstag
    • Maria Mitchell, America's First Woman Astronomer
    • Lee Lawrence Ansberry - The Courage to Live
    • Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt and the First Mississippi River Steamboat
    • Margaret Fox Kane's Victorian Love Story
    • Chicagoan Kate Kellogg Meets a Ghost on a Train
  • Acting History-History Plays
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  • Classroom Clues
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    • Pieces of the World History Puzzle
    • Time Machine Tours
  • The Haunted Hollows of History
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    • The Phantom Plowman
    • The Western Reserve and the Gilcher
    • The Ticonderoga's Haunted Bell
    • The Train Chaser
    • Mary Surratt
    • Farmer Brunett's Ghost Lantern
    • A Bicyclist Encounters a Phantom
  • Wading in Historical Waters
    • The Lady and the Patriot- The Fateful Voyage of Theodosia Burr Alston
    • Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk- Snatching Soldiers from the Fingers of the Nazis
    • Beaver Island - Mormon Kingdom, Fisherman's Paradise, Pirate Lair
    • Captain Jedediah Spinnet and His Sons Caught Fish and Pirates
    • Roman Emperor Caligula and His Legendary Lake Nemi Ships
    • Great Lakes Steamers and the Black Hawk War
    • Captain Harry Ward Cruised Gold Fields and Commanded a Slave Ship
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    • Sergeant Stubby, the World War I Dog
    • Pistol Head, Cocker Spaniel, Combat Veteran
    • Sallie the Civil War Heroine
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    • World War II Photographs by Sandy Blakeman
    • Church Going is a Common Historical Experience
  • Musical Muse
    • Lydia Maria Child Writes and Explores Over the River and Through the Wood
    • Solomon Linda, Mbube, Wimoweh, The Lion Sleeps Tonight
    • Leroy Anderson Captures Fun and Feelings in His Music
    • Harry Barnhart Helped Soldiers Sing Their Way Through World War I >
      • Presidents in a Package-George Washington >
        • Mary Breckinridge, Circuit Riding Nurse and Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
        • George and Harry Washington Fight for Freedom
        • Charles Wedel Served on Manitowoc Submarines >
          • Navy Diver Frank Prebezich Remembered Pearl Harbor by Salvaging Battleships
          • Stan Valentine at Pearl Harbor
          • World War II - Serving Aboard the USS Enterpise
          • Michel Linovich-an Italian in Napoleon's Grand Army
          • Charles Whittlesey- Scholar, Soldier, Humanist
          • The Five Sullivan Brothers Stick Together...
          • Kentuckian James Andrews and the Yankee Bridge Burners
          • General Grant, General Babcock, General McDonald and Journalist Colony: A Study in Scandal and Friendship
          • The Dudman Family Lived the Meaning...
        • George Washington Travels French Creek to Fort Le Boeuf
        • Miracle in World War I - the Christmas
        • Presidents in a Package - Thomas Jefferson
        • President James Monroe Inspects Michigan Territory - 1817
        • President Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery on the Steam Yacht Oneida
        • John Kissinger Volunteers to Get Yellow Fever
        • Mary Todd Lincoln Considered April Her "Season of Sadness"
        • Violets for Valor - Two Bereaved Fathers in the Civil War
      • Clarence and Mildred Beltmann - Persevering Through Hard Times
    • Singing Kumbayah- Harmonious in Hope, Discordant in Derision
    • James Bird - The Battle of Lake Erie, The Execution, The Ballad
    • PDF Musical Muse- Music History
    • Phil Ochs- A Musical Conscience of the 1960s and Beyond
    • Dan Fogelberg and His Music
    • Philip Paul Bliss and His Trunk of Songs
    • Riding with Private Andrew Malone: For All of those who didn't Make it Home
    • Do You Ken John Peel?
    • "Mind the Music and the Step-" Yankee Doodle Sings History
  • Back Water River and British Bluster
  • Soldier's Stories
  • September 11, 2001 is a "Mixed Feeling Day"
  • Memories of the Pearl Harbor Attack Haven't Faded with Time
    • Memories of Pearl Harbor
  • Light and Radiance - Figure Skater Laurence Owen and Her Team
  • Historic Halloween Tales
  • Thanksgiving Perspectives
    • Drive A Thanksgiving Turkey!
    • The Centerpiece of Thanksgiving Celebrations is Giving Thanks >
      • Presidents in a Package - Abraham Lincoln
      • Americans and Britons Celebrated Thanksgiving 1942 in War Weathered England
      • Writing a Gratitude Journal for Thanksgiving Day
      • "Do You Hear What I Hear?" >
        • Christmas Eve, 1941-A Sailor
        • Alfred Burt and Wihla Hutson
        • Milwaukee Soldiers and Sailors in World War II
        • History Sports Scenes >
          • Throwing Out the First Pitch - American Presidents On Opening Day
          • Kenesaw Mountain Landis
          • Jim Rice - A Big Time Coach in a Small Town
          • Playing Lucky Baseball with Lady Luck Sitting in the Catbird Seat
        • Silent Night Had Simple Beginnings >
          • The Angels Song - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
          • Stuffing Stockings on St. Nicholas Day >
            • Mrs. Santa Claus- A Strong and Supportive
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Mother and Daughter Journalists Agnes Meyer and Katharine Graham Shape Journalism



With determination and perseverance, Agnes Ernst Meyer pursued a career when women weren’t encouraged to do so and became an influential journalist, philanthropist and activist for education.

Agnes Ernst is the First Woman Reporter at the New York Sun

The daughter of German immigrants, Agnes was born and educated in New York City. She won a scholarship to study mathematics at Barnard College and martriculated over her father’s objections, paying for her college education herself through scholarships and wages from part time jobs.

When she was a Barnard senior, Agnes met the young educator John Dewey, and she said that he stirred the "seeds of a social conscience" in her that led her to embrace educational reform and many other social causes. During her student days at Barnard, Agnes became firmly committed to writing, education, and political activism and this committment continued for the rest of her life

The New York Sun hired Agnes as its first woman reporter after she graduated from Barnard in 1907. In the February 1934 issue of the Barnard College Alumnae Magazine, Agnes said that the New York Sun had hired her as a joke and that "they sent me to all the places where a man would have been thrown out. But it was grand! When my husband bought The Washington Post, it gave me no sense of owning the Post, but when I landed that job I thought I owned The Sun, and the earth and moon, too."

Writer Agnes Ernst Marries Banker Eugene Meyer

In 1908, Agnes began studying at the Sorbonne where she became friends with Gertrude Stein and Edward Steichen. Throughout her life, Agnes had a gift for friendship and maintained friendships with famous and ordinary people, including Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Mann

On February 13, 1910, the Boston Herald ran the headline "Banker Marries Writer." The story underneath the headline said that friends of Eugene Meyer and Agnes Elizabeth Ernst were "surprised to learn that the couple had been quietly married yesterday and had started on a trip around the world."

Eugene Meyer was a spectacularly successful investment banker and pioneer in investment analysis. He was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Herbert Hoover and the first president of the World Bank under President Harry S. Truman. He also founded Allied Chemical Company

Although Agnes scoffed at traditional female roles, she eventually had five children, one of them a daughter named Katharine who would one day marry Philip Graham and make trailblazing decisions as editor and publisher of the Washington Post. As Agnes pursued her intellectual interests and political passions, she also raised Katharine and her four other children

Agnes Becomes and Education Activist

In 1917, Eugene Meyer moved his family to Washington, D.C., where he worked in several important financial positions within the federal government over the next sixteen years. In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency, Eugene Meyer bought the struggling Washington Post. True to her career woman tendencies, Agnes Meyer often contributed articles that criticized the Works Progress Administration and some of the other New Deal programs and she continued to write for the Washington Post even after her daughter Katharine became its publisher.

Over the next forty years.Agnes Meyer explored her intellectual and community concerns and continued to travel and write about education, social problems, and political issues. During World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Agnes as a member of the President’s Commission on Higher Education. In a public speech she urged New Yorkers to support federal aid for schools as a national defense strategy.

The day after her speech, The New York Herald Tribune published a story about her remarks, reporting that five million young men were rejected for military service because they were educationally or physically handicapped. The story underscored her call for change and Agnes herself underscored the importance of education as a defense strategy. "We are again undertaking a vast rearmament program – it is obvious that education at all levels from the lowest to the highest is essential for the achievement of national defense," she said.

Agnes Meyer is a Social Activist and Tireless Writer

During World War II, Agnes Meyer traveled through the United States and Britain investigating home front conditions and she was dismayed to discover that government hadn’t provided basic needs like food and housing for its citizens.

She wrote stories exploring the problems of veterans, migrant workers, and African Americans, and she advocated for integration, expanded social security benefits, and an end to racial discrimination. One of her better known quotes concerned the role of Eleanor Roosevelt in politics. Agnes said, "It certainly must have been a relief for the women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political."

Agnes spoke out against Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Communist hunting allies as a threat to academic freedom. She wrote literary reviews and lectured on countless college campuses. She challenged Americans to become "global citizens" and hoped that American children would grow up to be "a composite of citizen and scientist." She tirelessly agitated for a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and federal aid to education. By 1960, Agnes had left the Republican Party and registered as a Democrat.

Throughout the 1960s, Agnes focused her intense energies on improving public education and she created and financed the Urban School Corps. She supported the New School for Social Research and the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation which gave millions of dollars to several health and education projects.

Altogether Agnes wrote hundreds of articles, interviews, speeches, letters and editorials. She published two books. Out of These Roots: Journey Through Chaos published in 1944, was an anthropological prescription for improving community life and moral education. In 1957, she published Education for a New Morality in which she explores the horrifying possibilities of an atomic world. Her third book, Chance and Destiny sits unpublished in her extensive file at the Library of Congress.

When Agnes died of cancer in 1970, newspapers across the country ran her obituary and friends across the country and the world mourned her death. Her daughter Katharine Graham carried on her legacy.



References

Gerber, Robin, Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon, Portfolio Hardcover, 2005

Meyer, Agnes E., Education for a New Morality, Macmillan, 1957


 
Katharine Meyer Graham Leaves Her Mark on the Washington Post
Agnes Meyer, the mother of Katharine Graham, shaped the Washington Post with her writing, and her daughter Katharine added her own imprint to the newspaper.

Katharine Graham, who her friends and associates called “Kay”, advanced from a Washington Post reporter to assuming control of the Washington Post in 1963, when her husband Philip committed suicide.

From 1969 to 1979, she was publisher of the Post, and from 1973 to 1991, she was board chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post Company. She remained Chairman of the Executive Committee until her death on July 17, 2001. She steered the Washington Post through its intricate coverage of the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal and won a Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography, Personal History.

Katharine Meyer’s Mother was a Noted Journalist, Her Father a Noted Banker

Born on June 16, 1917, Katharine Meyer enjoyed a privileged childhood. Her father, Eugene Meyer, earned a fortune as a financier and later served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Herbert Hoover and the first president of the World Bank when President Harry S. Truman was in office.

Her mother, Agnes Ernst Meyer, forged a career as a newspaper reporter when very few women worked in the profession Both of her parents traveled and socialized extensively, often leaving Katharine with nannies, governesses and tutors in their large home in Mount Kisco, New York or a smaller one in Washington, D.C.

While still in high school at the Madeira School, an independent private girl’s school near Washington DC, Katharine worked as a copy girl for The Washington Post which her father bought at a bankruptcy sale in 1933. She attended Vassar College for two years, and then transferred to the University of Chicago where she became interested in labor issues and developed friendships with people from all social classes

Katharine Meyer Marries Philip Graham

After she graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938, Katharine worked at the San Francisco News for almost a year and one of the stories she helped cover was a major wharf workers strike. In late 1939, she returned to Washington and joined the Washington Post staff, working in both the editorial and circulation departments.

Another Washington Post staff member introduced her to a group of young profession men who lived in a house in Arlington called Hockley Hall. One of the young men was Philip Leslie Graham, a recent Harvard Law School graduate who served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed in 1939, and for Justice Felix Frankfurter, one of his former Harvard professors. Philip Graham and Katharine Meyer discussed life and politics at the Hockley group’s social gatherings and they fell in love.

Katharine and Philip were married on June 5, 1940, and moved into a two story row house on 37th Street NW. Eventually, the Grahams had one daughter, Lally Morris Graham Weymouth, and three sons, Donald Edward Graham, William Welsh Graham, and Stephen Meyer Graham.

Philip Graham is a Brilliant, but Troubled Husband

In 1946, Philip Graham became publisher of the Washington Post and when Eugene Meyer died in 1959, Philip Graham took over as Chairman of the Washington Post Company. Under Philip Graham's leadership, The Washington Post Company purchased television stations and Newsweek Magazine. While running the Washington Post, Philip Graham also played a behind the scenes role in politics. President Lyndon Baines Johnson credited Philip Graham with the outlines for the Great Society Program , and in 1960, Philip Graham helped persuade John F. Kennedy to include Johnson on his ticket as the vice presidential candidate.

At this point in his life, Philip Graham was already visibly suffering from the manic depression that would haunt him until he died. In 1957, he had a nervous breakdown and retired to the family farm in Marshall, Virginia, to recuperate. He returned to work, but endured periods when he functioned brilliantly and times when he was morose, erratic, and drank heavily. At that time, there were no medications to help moderate his moods and his illness.

Twice, Philip Graham was committed to Chestnut Lodge, a psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland. Early in 1963, he left Katharine for a researcher from the Newsweek office in Paris, but in June 1963, he broke off the affair and returned home to enter Chestnut Lodge for the second time.

According to Katharine, Philip Graham was "quite noticeably much better," in August of 1963, and left the hospital for a weekend at their farmhouse. At the farmhouse on August 3, 1963, Philip killed himself with a shotgun. Katharine Graham found her 48-year-old husband in a downstairs bathroom.

Katharine Graham Takes Over The Washington Post After Her Husband's Death

After Philip Graham committed suicide, Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post Company at a time when most women were masters of their households but their responsibilities did not translate into the business world. Within days after her husband’s death, Katharine told the board of directors at The Post Company that it would stay in the family.

On September 20, 1963, she assumed the presidency of the company. At the time Katharine Graham was the only woman in a position of power at a publishing company, and many of her male colleagues and employees were skeptical of her ability to handle her position. Later in her memoir, Personal Life, Graham discussed her lack of confidence and faith in her own knowledge. “What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet,” she later said.

The Washington Post Investigates The Pentagon Papers and Watergate

Katharine Graham’s assumption of power at the Post and the strong and surging woman’s movement of the time changed her attitude and compelled her to promote gender equality in her own company. She and Ben Bradlee, managing editor of the Washington Post, raised the standards for investigative journalism to unimagined heights. In 1971, the Post began to publish parts of what were eventually called the Pentagon Papers, which contained supposedly secret information about the United States role in Vietnam since the end of World War II. The United States government tried to stop both the Washington Post and the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, but when the Supreme Court heard the cause, it ruled in favor of the newspapers.

In 1972, Katharine supported the aggressive investigative reporting of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward when the Washington Post chronicled the story of the Watergate burglary, which eventually forced the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its Watergate reporting.

By the time Katharine Graham stepped down as chief executive of the Washington Post in 1991, and as chairman in 1993, the Post Company had expanded into a diversified media corporation with newspaper, magazine, television, cable and educational services businesses. She was the first women to head a Fortune 500 company and the first woman to serve as director of the Associated Press and of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.

Katharine Graham's Personal History Wins a Pulitzer Prize

In 1997, Katharine published her memoirs, entitled Personal History, which garnered praise for her honest portrayal of her husband's mental illness and the insights she provided about the changing roles of women over her life time. Personal History won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

While Katharine Graham visited Sun Valley, Idaho in 2001, she fell and died three days later on July 17, 2001, as a result her head injury. Her funeral was held at the Washington National Cathedral and she is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, across from her former home in Georgetown.

Katharine Graham grew from a wife who felt that her sole purpose in life was to care for her husband into a woman of power and influence in the publishing world. She learned that as she put it, “The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power, was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.”

References

Bradlee, Ben, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, Simon & Schuster, 1996

Felsenthal, Carol, Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story, Seven Stories Press, 2003

Gerber, Robin, Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon, Portfolio Hardcover, 2005

Graham, Katharine, Personal History, Vintage, Reprint Edition, 1998

Graham, Katharine, Katharine Graham’s Washington, Vintage, 2003



 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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