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]
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[]
- R. C. O. Benjamin
- J. Dallas Bowser
- Mary E. Britton
- John Edward Bruce
- William Calvin Chase
- Lucretia Newman Coleman
- John Wesley Cromwell
- John C. Dancy
- Georgia Mabel De Baptiste
- Richard DeBaptiste
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
- George W. Gayles
- Frances E. W. Harper
- B. T. Harvey
- Charles Hendley
- Amelia E. Johnson
- Lillian A. Lewis
- Victoria Earle Matthews
- Alice E. McEwen
- John Mitchell Jr.
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell
- Mary Virginia Cook Parrish
- Benjamin B. Pelham
- Meta E. Pelham
- Robert Pelham Jr.
- Lucy Wilmot Smith
- Lavinia B. Sneed
- Elizabeth Stumm
- W. Allison Sweeney
- C. H. J. Taylor
- Marshall W. Taylor (minister)
- Robert T. Teamoh
- A. L. Tilghman
- Katherine D. Tillman
- Henry McNeal Turner
- S. B. Turner
- Josephine T. Washington
- John L. Waller
- Ida B. Wells
- William J. White (journalist)
- Ione E. Wood
List of newspapers and magazines profiled in book[]
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- 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[]
- Works related to The Afro-American Press and Its Editors at Wikisource
- Edition at archive.org
- via Google Books
- 1891 non-fiction books
- Books about African-American history
- Lists of African-American people
- United States biographical dictionaries