Grace Simon, Conscience of L.A. Parks System
Just a little note of thank you for recording the passing of Grace Simon (Times, April 23).
She came to Los Angeles in 1939, and became editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel, a then fledgling newspaper under Leon H. Washington Jr. as publisher.
Her journalist genius guided the Los Angeles Sentinel to one of the nation’s outstanding black newspapers. She later joined attorney Loren Miller at the California Eagle newspaper in 1951, and contrary to your statement that the newspaper failed, it is very much alive.
For her efforts as editor of two leading black-oriented newspapers, she improved the quality life of blacks and whites in Los Angeles.
EDWARD (ABIE) ROBINSON
Los Angeles
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