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Newspaper coverage of the movement served to publicize the cause. However, the way in which the movement was portrayed, and those whose struggles were highlighted in the press, displaced Black women to the background of a movement they spearheaded. A woman's issue, and a Black woman's issue, was being covered by the press.
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 Woman's Era was the first national newspaper published by and for black women in the United States. Originally established as a monthly Boston newspaper, it became distributed nationally in 1894 and ran until January 1897, with Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin as editor and publisher. [1]
Front page of the Birmingham Wide-Awake from January 1900. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Alabama. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in Alabama was The Nationalist, published in Mobile from 1865 to 1869. [1]
It includes both current and historical newspapers. New York was the birthplace of the African American press, with the publication of Freedom's Journal in 1827, and has remained a vibrant center of publishing ever since.
More than 130 such newspapers were published in the state between 1865 and 1970. [1] The first was the South Carolina Leader , established at Charleston in 1865. [ 2 ] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the growth of the African American press in South Carolina was hampered by the fact that a large proportion of South Carolina African ...
It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first African American newspaper in the state was The True Southerner , in 1865. [ 1 ] In the ensuing four decades, more than 50 such newspapers sprang up, addressing the manifold challenges facing the African American community during and after Reconstruction. [ 2 ]
In 1900 Fox joined the Indianapolis News, becoming the state's first black columnist to regularly write for a white newspaper. Fox was also an active clubwoman in Indianapolis's black community. She was the co-founder with Beulah Wright Porter of the Woman's Improvement Club of Indianapolis in 1903.