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Gerri Major

CTL-P-1380 · Person

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Combined Graph record U-03521 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1380. Master record source: User-supplied review 2026-10-17 (Once Upon a Time in Harlem review, Oct 15, 2026) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Society editor and journalist

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Society editor and journalist

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Geraldyn 'Gerri' Hodges Major (1894-1984) was a journalist and writer; Black society was her primary journalistic interest; she worked as writer, journalist and editor for African American newspapers including the New York Amsterdam News, and from 1953 spent 25 years at Johnson Publishing Company as society editor and associate editor for Ebony and later Jet, becoming senior staff editor for Ebony in 1967; co-author of Black Society (1976).

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