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Some notable black newspapers of the 19th century were Freedom's Journal (1827–1829), Philip Alexander Bell's Colored American (1837–1841), the North Star (1847–1860), the National Era, The Aliened American in Cleveland (1853–1855), Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851–1863), the Douglass Monthly (1859–1863), The People's Advocate ...
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.
The Christian Recorder is the official newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States. [1] It has been called "arguably the most powerful black periodical of the nineteenth century," a time when there were few sources for news and information about ...
This list includes both current and historical newspapers. In the 19th century, Pennsylvania saw a level of publishing that rivaled New York, with 14 African American periodicals in circulation from 1838 to 1906. [1] Pennsylvania's first African American newspaper was The Mystery, published in Pittsburgh by Martin Robison Delany from 1843 to ...
Told through the stories of four ordinary families from Brooklyn’s nineteenth-century Black community — the Crogers, the Hodges, the Wilsons, and the Gloucesters — it reveals not just of ...
The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. [1] The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in ...
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of California, including both historical and contemporary publications.California's first such newspaper was the Mirror of the Times, which began publishing in the mid-1850s. [1]
The newspaper was founded by John Wilk, Peter Williams, Jr., and other leading free Blacks in New York City, including orator and abolitionist William Hamilton.The first publication, on March 16, 1827, advertised Freedom's Journal for $3 (~$81.00 in 2023) per year, distributed each Friday at No. 5 Varick Street, New York City. [6]