by David H. Jackson Jr. | Apr 27, 2022 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
On January 1, 1916, The Journal of Negro History (now The Journal of African American History), an award-winning peer viewed journal and the official periodical published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, was founded as a quarterly...
by MikellRobert | Jan 25, 2022 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Black Scholar is a quarterly journal founded in 1969 by Nathan Hare, Robert Chrisman, and Allan Ross. It is the third-oldest journal of Black history and culture in the United States after The Crisis, the publication of the NAACP founded in 1910, and the Journal...
by PharrGwendolyn | Apr 16, 2016 | African American History, Places
The largest number of African American townships after the Civil War were located in Oklahoma. The state was promoted as a ‘safe haven’ for Blacks by both local and national leaders. As a result, between 1865 and 1920, dozens of townships and settlements...
by FarthingBrian | Jan 5, 2011 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Freedom’s Journal, established the same year that slavery was abolished in New York, was the first African American-owned and operated newspaper in the United States. In its early years, it distributed more than 800 copies throughout 11 states and the District of...
by KinsonChristopher | Dec 30, 2010 | African American History, People
Benjamin Pelham was a powerful Detroit politician and journalist. He was the Wayne County accountant from 1906 until 1942 and the proprietor and editor of the first successful black newspaper in Detroit, the Plaindealer. Pelham, the youngest of six children born to...
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