 Representative leaders included Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870–1940), publisher of the "Chicago Defender"; John Mitchell, Jr. (1863–1929), editor of the "Richmond Planet" and president of the National Afro-American Press Association; Anthony Overton (1865–1946), publisher of the "Chicago Bee", Garth C. Reeves, Sr. (1919-2019), Publisher Emeritus of the "Miami Times" and Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), the publisher and editor of the "Pittsburgh Courier".In the 1940s the number of newspapers grew from 150 to 250.The national, Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (1919–1964) was a news agency "with correspondents and stringers in all major centers of black population."