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First African American newspaper in Tennessee, first published April 29, 1865. Founded by William B. Scott. Nashville: The Nashville Commentator: 1948 [80] 1971 [79]
William Bennett Scott Sr. (died 1885) was a pioneering newspaper founder and publisher, mayor, and civil rights campaigner who helped found Freedman’s Normal Institute in Maryville, Tennessee. [1] [2] He was the first African American to run a newspaper in Tennessee and had the only newspaper in Blount County, Tennessee for 10 years. [1]
This is a list of African American newspapers and media outlets, which is sortable by publication name, city, state, founding date, and extant vs. defunct status. For more detail on a given newspaper, see the linked entries below. See also by state, below on this page, for entries on African American newspapers in each state.
African American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African American periodical, Freedom's Journal , in 1827.
It admitted its first African-American student, Gene Gray, in 1952 under a court ruling the prior year that ended the integration ban for graduate and professional students. [43] Following Brown v. Board of Education and the 1960 Nashville sit-in movement, the UT Board of Trustees announced an end to racial discrimination in admissions on ...
The Nashville Globe was a black-owned and operated [1] newspaper serving the African American community in Nashville, Tennessee. It was first published in 1906 during the boycott that followed segregation law imposed on the city's streetcars. [2] The paper was housed in the R.H. Boyd Building in a part of town that was vibrant with African ...
The newspaper was founded by John Eaton, [2] former Superintendent for Negro Affairs in the Department of the Tennessee, and began publication in January 1866. [1] John Eaton was the chief editor and his brother Lucian worked as assistant editor. [3]
The Memphis Free Speech was an African American newspaper founded in 1881 [1] in Memphis, Tennessee, by the Reverend Taylor Nightingale, based at the Beale Street Baptist Church. [2]