The Black Press: Two Centuries of Telling Our Own Story — EPUB Ebook

The Black Press: Two Centuries of Telling Our Own Story by Carlos L. Young Sr. — EPUB Ebook. Volume 11 of the Left Out of the History Books series (The Digital Black Voice). "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us." With that line, Freedom's Journal opened the Black press in 1827 — and for two centuries Black newspapers and magazines did what the white press would not: printed the lynching reports, organized the Great Migration, carried soldiers' letters home, ran the Double V campaign, and published the photograph of Emmett Till that forced a nation to look. This volume profiles 29 papers, publishers, and turning points in chronological order — Douglass, Shadd, Fortune, Wells, Abbott's Defender, Vann's Courier, Du Bois's Crisis, Johnson's Ebony and Jet, Ethel Payne and Simeon Booker — with every circulation figure attributed and every founding myth checked (the Afro-American was founded in 1892; Murphy bought it in 1897, for $200 at a bankruptcy auction). Volume 11 of the Left Out of the History Books series by Carlos L. Young Sr. (The Digital Black Voice). EPUB: 42 pages in print layout.