Roi Ottley Collection  

St. Bonaventure University


Select bibliography about Ottley

"Not to Attend Brooklyn College, Young Ottley Will Share Room at Bonaventure with Gus Moore" [no title on clipping]. September 15, 1926

"Ottley Sees New World-A Coming" Dexter Teed, New York Post Daily Magazine. April 7, 1941. 

"Roi Ottley, Negro Journalist" New York Times June 18, 1943 19:1

"Alumnus Writes Best Seller" The Bona Venture, November 12, 1943 11-12 

"Former Bona Student Becoming Big Name in Field of Journalism"  Walt Savercool, The Bona Venture, November 16th, 1951 p. 3

"Roi Ottley Stresses Chance for Negroes" New York Times January 12, 1954 21:2 

"Roi Ottley Dies" New York Times Sunday, October 2, 1960

"The Famous Forgotten".  Johanna Neuman.  American Legacy. Fall 2009, 62-70.

Roi Ottley's World War II : The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist. Mark A. Huddle, ed. Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Pr, 2011.  This is a publication of this document from the collection along with other war-time publications and an introduction by Huddle.

"A Civil Rights Hero Remembers a Pope." First Things. July 30, 2012.  http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/07/a-civil-rights-hero-remembers-a-pope

Last updated: 21 August 2012

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