The Afro-American Press and Its Editors

Author| Irvine Garland Penn
Publisher| Willey & Company

Publication date

| 1891
ISBN| 9780598582683

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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