Paper's Owner Fought Officials -- Questioned Authority; Demanded Civil Rights for African-Americans

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › July 10, 2007

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JACKSON, Miss. - Charles Tisdale, who fought for civil rights as owner and publisher of Mississippi's oldest black-owned newspaper, died Saturday. He was 80.

Tisdale collapsed last week while undergoing dialysis. He had been on life support until his family decided to take him off Saturday night.

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Paper's Owner Fought Officials -- Questioned Authority; Demanded Civil Rights for African-Americans

Tisdale, 80, took over the Jackson Advocate in the late 1970s, and was an outspoken critic of elected officials, ...

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