Some Were Paupers, Some Were Kings: Dispatches from Kansas
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Prize-winning journalist Mark McCormick’s best columns are collected here. He writes of people with Kansas connections who altered their world, those known and those not household names: Gordon Parks, Dwight Eisenhower, Diane Nash, Don Hollowell, James Reeb, Barry Sanders, Sam Adams, Ron Walters, Arthur Fletcher, Bessie Halbrook, etc. His
Mark E. McCormick
In fourteen years at the Wichita Eagle Mark McCormick received more than 20 journalism and civic awards, including three Gold Medals in five years from the Kansas City Press Club, a First Place award in 2009 from the Kansas Press association, and a "Man of the Year" Award from Wichita Business and Professional Women. Today Mark is Director of Strategic Communications for the ACLU of Kansas. He has also served as the executive director of the Kansas African American Museum and Director of Communications for the Kansas Leadership Center.
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