Newspaper editor. Founder of the Atlanta Daily World, the first successful and one of the most widely circulated African-American daily newspapers in the nation. Scott, son of a minister was educated at Morehouse College in Atlanta around World War I. He initially began publishing a business directory in Atlanta. However, he was interested in encouraging conversation and interaction among the black residents of Atlanta so, with the encouragement of black business owners in the city, he began to publish a newspaper at the age of 26. The paper was founded as the Atlanta World newspaper in 1928 and using the Atlanta World as fuel, Scott charged ahead, establishing the first chain of African-American newspapers in 1931. The Scott Newspaper Syndicate eventually would include 50 newspapers. In 1932 the publication became the Atlanta Daily World. The renamed Atlanta Daily World delivered what other Black-owned newspapers could not, coverage of events in a timely fashion. The paper also became a tool Scott used to redress social injustices, such as raising funds for the nine African-American youths falsely accused of raping white girls in the infamous 1930s Scottsboro Boys trials. The paper also sought, and received, national advertisers such as Coca-Cola at a time when such advertising was crucial to the growth of Black-owned publishing. Tragically, as Scott was climbing toward the pinnacle of his business career, his life was cut short by an assailant's bullet at his home in 1934. No one was ever convicted of his murder. His work was carried on by his younger brother, Cornelius Adolphus Scott, who ran the publishing business for 63 years. The Atlanta Daily World remained in the hands of one family, the Scotts, until its purchase in 2012 by Real Times Media. Many prominent journalists began their careers at the Atlanta Daily World including: Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor Emeritus, Ebony Magazine, Paul Delaney, a former New York Times editor, and Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb, an editor at the Washington Post. The Atlanta Daily World now publishes once a week, on Thursdays, and updates news and information on a daily basis via the newspaper's website (www.atlantadailyworld.com)on the internet.