Moss Kendrix: A Social Activist

Moss Kendrix was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1917. His early education was obtained through the local public schools. He later attended Atlanta's Morehouse College, a respected college for African-American men. Kendrix was a popular college student, who became the editor of the Morehouse newspaper The Maroon Tiger, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was also the co-founder of the Phi Delta Delta Journalism Society, the first and only society of its kind for African-American journalism students. In 1939, just after graduating from Morehouse, Kendrix created National Negro Newspaper Week. He was accepted into Howard University's Law School in 1939, but opted to gain work experience. That same year, he married Dorothy Marie Johnson,