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21-474: Goodlett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlton Benjamin Goodlett (1914–1997), American physician, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist John A. Goodlett , American politician Ray Goodlett , American soccer player Sasha Goodlett (born 1990), American women's basketball player See also [ edit ] Goodlett Gin ,

42-726: A California Assembly seat in 1962. Goodlett named him the Sun-Reporter Man of the Year and financed his $ 7,500 campaign. Brown narrowly lost that time, but won in 1964, and went on to become Speaker of the Assembly for more than 14 years, a state record. Later Brown served eight years as Mayor of San Francisco . He was frequently and sharply critical of his Democratic friends, such as President John F. Kennedy and Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown , for not moving fast enough on civil rights and other causes. In 1966 Goodlett ran for governor himself as

63-508: A bellyache." In June 1994 Goodlett left San Francisco to spend his last years under the care of his son Dr. Garry M. Goodlett, in Cumming, Iowa , where he died in 1997. On January 29, 1997, San Francisco's then-Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. issued a statement: "It may be the single biggest loss that the black community and the progressive community has ever suffered in San Francisco. Dr. Goodlett

84-707: A historic cotton gin in Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County, Arkansas, United States [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Goodlett . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goodlett&oldid=794806119 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

105-535: A protest against Pat Brown. He finished third out of six candidates in the Democratic primary, with 95,000 votes. Until the emergence of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, Goodlett was the dominant figure in San Francisco's civil rights movement in securing jobs for African Americans and appointments to important city commissions that blacks had never held. Goodlett was arrested in 1968 while supporting

126-643: A strike by San Francisco State University students who demanded a Black studies department. The students won, and the University became the first in the nation to have a Black studies program. In the early 1960s he joined the World Peace Council , a coalition of over 120 countries, then headquartered in Helsinki, Finland . He was a member of the presidium, and traveled the globe to encourage progressive and communist causes, sometimes meeting with heads of state. He

147-613: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carlton Benjamin Goodlett He was born in Chipley, Florida , to Fannie T. Russ and Arthur Goodlett, and later migrated to Omaha, Nebraska . He was the youngest of two children. His sister's name is unknown, but when she was 5 and Carlton was 3 years old, her dress caught fire from the embers from the home's fireplace, and the house subsequently caught on fire too. She managed to get Carlton out but did not herself survive. Goodlett

168-423: Is running like hell away from Jim Jones now, but none of us knew at the time." When he became incapacitated from Parkinson's disease , he continued dictating or writing many of the paper's editorials, holding political meetings in the office, and guiding the direction of his newspapers. "The black tail is never going to wag the white dog," he once said, "But if we live in the belly of the beast, we can cause quite

189-649: The National Newspaper Publishers Association (Black Press of America). By the late 1950s, through a constant barrage of speeches before community groups and the growing influence of his newspaper, Goodlett had become one of the city's most prominent black leaders. Using his combined newspapers to become a political force in San Francisco, Goodlett cultivated friendships with leading black entertainers, artists and politicians, including W.E.B. Du Bois , Paul Robeson , and Dick Gregory . One problem that black physicians encountered in San Francisco

210-603: The San Francisco Young Democrats . Until Phil Burton's death in 1983, Goodlett was one of his closest allies. Phil Burton became a member of the California State Assembly and later a powerful member of Congress. Burton's brother, California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton , credited Goodlett as being "singularly responsible" for initially electing Phil Burton to office. Both Goodlett and Phil Burton strongly supported Willie L. Brown Jr. for

231-896: The Communist World Peace Conference at Helsinki because it didn't go far enough. In 1970, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Medal by the Soviet Union. Like many well-known San Franciscans, Goodlett's reputation was tarnished somewhat by his close association with the Reverend Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple . He was Jones' personal physician and published his church's newspaper. In November 1978, Jones committed suicide in Guyana with more than 900 followers. Goodlett later said, "You don't need glasses for hindsight. Everybody

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252-837: The age of 23. In 1944, he completed his Doctor of Medicine degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville . Returning to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1945, he opened a medical practice to serve the burgeoning new black community drawn by the war industries. At the same time, he emerged as a civil rights advocate. As president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1947–49, he protested The City's discrimination against hiring blacks for its public transportation system , demanded improvements in public housing, and exposed

273-628: The building. National Newspaper Publishers Association The National Newspaper Publishers Association ( NNPA ), formerly the National Negro Publishers Association , is an association of African American newspaper publishers from across the United States . It was established in 1940 and took its current name in 1956. Its headquarters was in Louisville, Kentucky . The NNPA was founded in 1940 when John H. Sengstacke ,

294-594: The exclusion of blacks and Jews from draft boards in San Francisco. In 1948 he became co-owner of The Reporter , a community weekly edited by his old friend Thomas C. Fleming , which then absorbed its competitor, The Sun , to become The Sun-Reporter . In 1951 Goodlett became sole owner. He wrote most of the editorials and established it as the leading black newspaper in Northern California. In 1971 he added Oakland's California Voice and seven Metro-Reporters to his chain. He served three terms as president of

315-541: The president and CEO of the organization. In 2001, NNPA created an electronic news service, Black Press USA , which enables newspapers to provide real-time news and information to its national constituency. In 2003, Larry Muhammad reported for NeimanReports that Black Press USA "is a project of the Black Press Institute and handled by XIGroup, a Web development firm co-owned by Joy Bramble, publisher of The Baltimore Times , an NNPA member publication." In 2023,

336-481: The second publisher of the Chicago Defender , organized a meeting with other African American publishers intended for "harmonizing our energies in a common purpose for the benefit of Negro journalism". Sengstacke succeeded in realizing a dream that his uncle, Robert Sengstacke Abbott , had for many years. Fittingly, Abbott died on the morning of the inaugural conference on February, 29, 1940. The younger Sengstacke

357-483: Was the pioneer on equal rights, equal opportunity, political action, entrepreneurship, and economic independence. He was truly a renaissance person ." On January 18, 1999, following a unanimous vote by the 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors , the official address of San Francisco City Hall was changed to 1 Carlton B. Goodlett Place. The name appears on the street sign for two blocks of Polk Street and on all stationery, business cards, and mail to and from

378-532: Was a very precocious child, often following his sister to school, being too young to attend. The teacher turned him away repeatedly, until she decided to take him seriously, and let him stay. He received a bachelor's degree in 1935 from Howard University in Washington, D.C. , and in 1938 he became one of the first African Americans to earn a doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley , at

399-631: Was chairman of the board of the communist William L. Patterson Foundation , and was once turned away from England because of his leftist politics. Along with Martin Luther King Jr. , Goodlett was one of the first prominent African Americans to publicly oppose the war in Vietnam . He was just as critical of his communist friends, refusing to sign a condemnation of the United States for the Vietnam War at

420-603: Was selected as the first president of the NNPA, and D. Arnett Murphy , the son of John H. Murphy Sr. , who published the Baltimore Afro-American , was selected as the eastern vice president. In 1956, the trade association changed the name to the current moniker. "In 2000, the NNPA launched NNPA Media Services — a print and web advertising placement and press release distribution service." Since 2014, Dr. Benjamin Chavis has been

441-651: Was their inability to practice in any of the local hospitals. They could send their patients to the hospital but lost them at the hospital door, where black doctors were barred from following through with their patients' treatment. Under Goodlett's leadership, all nonwhite physicians won the right to see patients at all public hospitals in the City. Goodlett was also a businessman who developed town houses, open to all San Franciscans, on Steiner Street and Geary Boulevard . Goodlett retired from medical practice in 1983. In 1947, Goodlett, along with Phillip Burton and others, founded

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