The Afro-American Press and Its Editors
Afro-American Press and Its Editors is a book published in 1891 written by Irvine Garland Penn. Penn covers African-American newspapers and magazines published between 1827 and 1891.[1] The book covers many aspects of journalism, and devotes a chapter to black female journalists.[2] Penn believed that the black press played a crucial role in presenting the case to the broader American population that black people were fit for the full benefits of citizenship.[3]
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The book is frequently referenced as an important early work on African-American journalism. John Ernest called Penn's book comprehensive and detailed and the foundation of many later studies. Penn wrote in part to encourage blacks to support black papers.[4] Charles A. Simmons writes that Penn's book along with Armistead S. Prides, A Register and History of Negro Newspapers in the United States: 1827–1950 and Warren Brown's Check List of Negro Newspapers in the United States (1827-1946) are essential starting points for understanding the early history of African American newspapers.[5]
List of individuals profiled in book
- John Q. Adams (journalist)
- A. E. P. Albert
- G. W. Anderson
- W. H. Anderson (journalist)
- William H. Anderson (journalist)
- J. T. Bailey
- S. J. Bampfield
- R. C. O. Benjamin
- Daniel S. Bentley
- Joseph A. Booker
- J. Dallas Bowser
- Mary E. Britton
- William F. Brooks
- Calvin S. Brown
- John Edward Bruce
- William Buford (journalist)
- Abel P. Caldwell
- David C. Carter
- William Calvin Chase
- Levi E. Christy
- M. W. Clair
- George W. Clinton (journalist)
- T. W. Coffee
- Lucretia Newman Coleman
- Edward E. Cooper
- John Wesley Cromwell
- John C. Dancy
- D. W. Davis (journalist)
- Georgia Mabel De Baptiste
- Richard DeBaptiste
- William H. Dewey
- Henry Fitzbutler
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
- W. H. Franklin
- George W. Gayles
- C. B. W. Gordon
- F. M. Hamilton
- Frances E. W. Harper
- B. T. Harvey
- Charles Hendley
- Thomas T. Henry
- S. N. Hill
- Augustus M. Hodges
- J. Alexander Holmes
- J. E. Jones (journalist)
- R. A. Jones (journalist)
- Amelia E. Johnson
- W. B. Johnson (journalist)
- William E. King
- Lillian A. Lewis
- M. M. Lewey
- E. H. Lipscombe
- R. D. Littlejohn
- William S. Lowry
- Victoria Earle Matthews
- Alice E. McEwen
- A. N. McEwen
- John Mitchell Jr.
- W. H. Mixon
- J. T. Morris
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell
- William Murrell (journalist)
- Richard Nelson (journalist)
- Mary Virginia Cook Parrish
- E. W. S Peck
- Benjamin B. Pelham
- Meta E. Pelham
- Robert Pelham Jr.
- Christopher J. Perry
- R. S. Ransom
- I. Randall Reid
- Magnus L. Robinson
- S. D. Russell
- D. J. Saunders
- William F. Simpson
- H. C. Smith
- Lucy Wilmot Smith
- W. C. Smith (journalist)
- Lavinia B. Sneed
- James J. Spellman
- John Gordon Street
- W. H. Stowers
- Elizabeth Stumm
- Chasteen C. Stumm
- W. Allison Sweeney
- C. H. J. Taylor
- Marshall W. Taylor (minister)
- Robert T. Teamoh
- A. L. Tilghman
- Katherine D. Tillman
- William B. Townsend
- Henry McNeal Turner
- S. B. Turner
- Josephine T. Washington
- John L. Waller
- Ida B. Wells
- William J. White (journalist)
- Danial Barclay Williams
- E. A. Williams
- D. A. Williamson
- J. H. Williamson
- J. T. Wilson
- Ione E. Wood
List of newspapers and magazines profiled in book
- Freedom's Journal (1827-1829)
- The Rights of All (1829-1830)
- The Colored American (New York City) (initially the Weekly Advocate) (1837-1842)
- The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper) (1847-1865)
References
- Simons, William M., and Alvin L. Hall, eds. The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002. Vol. 6. McFarland, 2003, p. 217.
- Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, The Black Church, in West, Cornel, and Eddie S. Glaude, eds. African American religious thought: An anthology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, p. 198.
- Hornsby Jr, Alton, ed. A companion to African American history. John Wiley & Sons, 2008, pp. 334–335.
- Ernest, John. Liberation historiography: African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794–1861. University of North Carolina Press, 2004, p. 276.
- Simmons, Charles A. African American press: a history of news coverage during national crises, with special reference to four black newspapers, 1827–1965. McFarland, 2006, p. 2.
External links
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