Negro Journalism: An Essay on the History and Present Conditions of the Negro Press

From its small beginning in 1827, Negro Journalism has steadily grown in the United States. Today it stands as a definite factor in Negro life. In truth, the Negro press reflect...

With the founding of the _North Star_, at Rochester. N. Y., November 1, 1847, a new era in Negro Journalism was begun. The new paper was conducted on a much higher plane than an...

The last twenty years of the nineteenth century were marked by an increase in the number of papers published. More than 150 papers were being published by Negroes in thirty diff...

The magazine field has not been entered as rapidly or as fully by the Negro journalist as the newspaper field. The first Negro magazine, nevertheless, early followed the beginni...

Seven years after Benjamin Lundy began _The Genius of Universal Emancipation_, and four years before William Lloyd Garrison started to publish _The Liberator_, Negro Journalism...

Today over 250 secular Negro newspapers are being published in the United States, with a total circulation of over one million five hundred thousand copies. These papers are pub...

Without doubt the first two decades of the twentieth century mark the highest progress in Negro Journalism. More papers have been established, and better papers have been produc...

Definite steps are being taken by Negro schools and colleges to provide academic training in Journalism. Even in the high schools, the development of a vague appreciation of, an...

With the emancipation, a new period in Negro Journalism is begun. For nearly forty years newspapers had been published by Negroes who had obtained their freedom, but the circula...

The first attempt of the Negro journalist to publish a daily newspaper was _The Cairo_ (Ill.) _Gazette_, which was first issued April 23, 1882. The editor was W. S. Scott. The p...