Augustus M. Hodges
African American journalist, editor, and writer
About Augustus M. Hodges
Lived 1854 – 1916 (aged 62). Augustus M. Hodges was an American journalist, editor and writer.
Augustus Michael Hodges (pen name B. Square, or B. Square Bluster; 1854–1916), was an American editor, writer, journalist, and political organizer.
Biography Augustus Michael Hodges was born March 18, 1854, in Williamsburg, Virginia, to parents Sarah Ann (née Corprew) and Willis A. Hodges.
Hodges attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) and graduated in 1874.
He was a writer for the newspapers The New York Globe, The Colored American, The Indianapolis Freeman, and The Brooklyn Sentinel. In 1910, he presided over the Colored Citizens League of the Fourth and Fifth Congressional Districts convention held at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York. He had an illness for many weeks,
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African American journalist, editor, and writer (1854–1916)
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Augustus M. Hodges was born on 18 March 1854 in Williamsburg.
When did Augustus M. Hodges die?
Augustus M. Hodges died on 22 August 1916.
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Augustus M. Hodges was a journalist, editor and writer.
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Augustus M. Hodges was American.
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