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    The Afro-American Press and Its Editors

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    The Afro-American Press and Its Editors
    AuthorIrvine Garland Penn
    PublisherWilley & Company
    Publication date
    		1891
    ISBN9780598582683

    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]

    About

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    Author, Irvine Garland Penn
    Image of newsboy from book

    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]

    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 Henry 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

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    • John Quincy Adams
    • A. E. P. Albert
    • G. W. Anderson
    • W. H. Anderson (journalist)
    • William H. Anderson (journalist)
    • J. T. Bailey
    • Samuel J. Bampfield
    • Robert C. O. Benjamin
    • Daniel S. Bentley
    • Joseph Albert Booker
    • J. Dallas Bowser
    • Mary E. Britton
    • William F. Brooks
    • Calvin S. Brown
    • John Edward Bruce
    • William Buford (journalist)
    • Abel Payne Caldwell
    • David C. Carter
    • William Calvin Chase
    • Levi E. Christy
    • Matthew Wesley 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
    • Martin R. Delany
    • William H. Dewey
    • Henry Fitzbutler
    • Timothy Thomas Fortune
    • William Henderson Franklin
    • George W. Gayles
    • Charles Benjamin William Gordon Sr.
    • 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
    • Charles A. Johnson (journalist)
    • W. B. Johnson (journalist)
    • William E. King
    • Lillian A. Lewis
    • Matthew M. Lewey
    • Edward Hart 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 Lewis Robinson
    • S. D. Russell
    • John Brown Russwurm
    • D. J. Saunders
    • John T. Shuften
    • William F. Simpson
    • Harry C. Smith
    • Lucy Wilmot Smith
    • W. C. Smith (journalist)
    • Lavinia B. Sneed
    • James J. Spellman
    • John Gordon Street
    • Walter H. Stowers
    • Elizabeth Stumm
    • Chasteen C. Stumm
    • W. Allison Sweeney
    • Charles H. J. Taylor
    • Marshall W. Taylor
    • Robert T. Teamoh
    • Amelia L. Tilghman
    • Katherine D. Tillman
    • William B. Townsend
    • Henry McNeal Turner
    • Sheadrick Bond Turner
    • Samuel Ringgold Ward
    • Josephine T. Washington
    • John L. Waller
    • Ida B. Wells
    • William J. White
    • Daniel Barclay Williams
    • E. A. Williams
    • D. A. Williamson
    • John H. Williamson
    • Joseph T. Wilson
    • Ione E. Wood

    List of newspapers and magazines profiled in book

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    • Detroit Plaindealer (1883–1894)
    • Freedom's Journal (1827–1829)
    • Southwestern Christian Advocate (1877–1929)
    • The Appeal (1885–1923)
    • The Baptist Vanguard (c. 1882–present)
    • The Colored American (1837–1842)
    • The North Star (1847–1865)
    • The Rights of All (1829–1830)

    References

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    1. ^ Simons, William M., and Alvin L. Hall, eds. The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002. Vol. 6. McFarland, 2003, p. 217.
    2. ^ 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.
    3. ^ Hornsby Jr, Alton, ed. A companion to African American history. John Wiley & Sons, 2008, pp. 334–335.
    4. ^ Ernest, John. Liberation historiography: African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794–1861. University of North Carolina Press, 2004, p. 276.
    5. ^ 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.
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