Chicago Star

The Chicago Star was a Communist Party USA weekly publication.

Founded in 1946^[1], members of the board of directors were Ernest De Maio, Frank Marshall Davis, William L. Patterson, Grant Oakes, and William Sennett. The executive editor was Frank M. Davis; managing editor, Carl Hirsch; and general manager, William Sennett. Howard Fast was a columnist, and Rockwell Kent a contributing editor.^[2]

References

1. ^ Popular fronts: Chicago and African-American cultural politics, 1935-46 By Bill Mullen page 190
2. ^ Fifth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee On Un-American Activities, California Legislature, 1949, p. 545.