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07/27/2015
Amos Lynch, longtime newspaperman and black leader, dies at 90
Amos H. Lynch Sr., a Columbus leader in civil rights, business and journalism — and a mentor to many in the black community — died on Friday at age 90.
Lynch helped start three different Columbus newspapers: the Ohio Sentinel in 1949; the Call and Post, a local edition of a popular black paper in Cleveland, in 1962; and the Columbus Post in 1995.
He was editor of the Call and Post throughout its 33-year existence and was publisher of the Post until his retirement more than a decade ago.
“I learned early in my life that the written word is the most powerful tool for acquiring equal civil rights for all, and that newspapers were the best method for getting the word out,” Lynch said during his 2011 induction into the Ohio Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
