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Ruth Apilado
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'''Ruth Apilado''' (born '''Ruth Mosselle Mays'''; April 30, 1908) is an American newspaper editor, [[Racial inequality in the United States|anti-racism]] [[Activism|activist]], and founder of ''[[America's Intercultural Magazine]]''.<ref name="Sudbury09"></ref>
==Early life and career==
Apilado was born on April 30, 1908, in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. Her parents were Stewart and Clara Mays.<ref name="HistoryMakers"></ref>
Apilado became a teacher in 1928, after graduating from [[Chicago State University|Chicago State University]].<ref name="CTribune40"></ref> She began her journalistic career in 1942, when she briefly worked as an editor for the newly-created ''Negro Youth Photo Scripts Magazine''.<ref name="Weekly42"></ref> In 1950, Apilado published a novel called The Joneses.<ref name="Herald50"></ref> In 1945, she wrote a [[Letter to the editor|letter to the editor]] expressing her criticism of [[Richard Wright]]'s [[Memoir|memoir]] ''[[Black Boy]]'', stating that it was an inaccurate depiction of the typical childhood of [[African-Americans]].<ref name="SharpWhite19"></ref>
After retiring from teaching in 1973, Apilado founded ''[[America's Intercultural Magazine]]'' (AIM), a quarterly-published journal that set out to "''bridge the gap between races, cultures, and religions.''"<ref name="MagMarket08"></ref> Already in 1948, an initiative of creating such a journal (called ''Freedom Press'') took place, when she requested the newspaper Berkeley Daily Gazette to assist her and her associates with marketing.<ref name="Berkeley48"></ref> Her anti-racism stance was reflected in the editorials that she wrote; for example, she praised the activist and church leader Willa Saunders Jones in 1975.<ref name="Windy09">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> On June 16, 1990, she participated as a panelist in a writers' conference at [[Elgin Community College]] in Illinois.<ref name="Arlington90"></ref>
==Personal life==
Apilado's husband was Filipino-American Inosencio Apilado. They married in 1932. Their son, Myron Apilado, was the vice-president for minority affaris for [[University of Washington]] until the year 2000, as well as an editor of AIM.<ref name="Washington00"></ref> On August 26, 2004, at age 96, she was interviewed by Larry Crowe of The History Makers, a project that produces [[Oral history|oral history]] material of African-Americans.<ref name="HistoryMakers"/> She was 110 years old as of December 19, 2018.<ref name="Apple19"></ref>
==References==
[[Category:1908 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American magazine editors]]
[[Category:American magazine founders]]
[[Category:Activists for African-American civil rights]]
[[Category:Women centenarians]]
[[Category:American centenarians]]
==Early life and career==
Apilado was born on April 30, 1908, in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. Her parents were Stewart and Clara Mays.<ref name="HistoryMakers"></ref>
Apilado became a teacher in 1928, after graduating from [[Chicago State University|Chicago State University]].<ref name="CTribune40"></ref> She began her journalistic career in 1942, when she briefly worked as an editor for the newly-created ''Negro Youth Photo Scripts Magazine''.<ref name="Weekly42"></ref> In 1950, Apilado published a novel called The Joneses.<ref name="Herald50"></ref> In 1945, she wrote a [[Letter to the editor|letter to the editor]] expressing her criticism of [[Richard Wright]]'s [[Memoir|memoir]] ''[[Black Boy]]'', stating that it was an inaccurate depiction of the typical childhood of [[African-Americans]].<ref name="SharpWhite19"></ref>
After retiring from teaching in 1973, Apilado founded ''[[America's Intercultural Magazine]]'' (AIM), a quarterly-published journal that set out to "''bridge the gap between races, cultures, and religions.''"<ref name="MagMarket08"></ref> Already in 1948, an initiative of creating such a journal (called ''Freedom Press'') took place, when she requested the newspaper Berkeley Daily Gazette to assist her and her associates with marketing.<ref name="Berkeley48"></ref> Her anti-racism stance was reflected in the editorials that she wrote; for example, she praised the activist and church leader Willa Saunders Jones in 1975.<ref name="Windy09">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> On June 16, 1990, she participated as a panelist in a writers' conference at [[Elgin Community College]] in Illinois.<ref name="Arlington90"></ref>
==Personal life==
Apilado's husband was Filipino-American Inosencio Apilado. They married in 1932. Their son, Myron Apilado, was the vice-president for minority affaris for [[University of Washington]] until the year 2000, as well as an editor of AIM.<ref name="Washington00"></ref> On August 26, 2004, at age 96, she was interviewed by Larry Crowe of The History Makers, a project that produces [[Oral history|oral history]] material of African-Americans.<ref name="HistoryMakers"/> She was 110 years old as of December 19, 2018.<ref name="Apple19"></ref>
==References==
[[Category:1908 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:American magazine editors]]
[[Category:American magazine founders]]
[[Category:Activists for African-American civil rights]]
[[Category:Women centenarians]]
[[Category:American centenarians]]
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