Do his numbers reflect a large cross-over of white readers?
He was also the first editor to make a subtle change in his pages that infuriated thousands of white readers.
But even with the cuts, "Native Son" was still strong medicine for white readers.
These techniques force white readers to explore their feelings about race and their own "privileged status".
Many white readers responded to those examples with sympathy.
However, some white readers said they too experience racism, again of the variety that does not make headlines.
Hounded by the state, the paper's board decided to moderate its content for the sake of attracting more affluent white readers.
He said he had concluded that white and black readers wanted different things from a column written by a black man.
It was also the only newspaper in Winter Park, and thus served both black and white readers.
Although not viewed as radical by black audiences, it was aimed at white British readers.