The Afro-American Press and Its Editors

Afro-American Press and Its Editors is a book published in 1891 written by Irvine Garland Penn. Penn covers African-American newspapers and magazines published between 1827 and 1891.[1] The book covers many aspects of journalism, and devotes a chapter to black female journalists.[2] Penn believed that the black press played a crucial role in presenting the case to the broader American population that black people were fit for the full benefits of citizenship.[3]

Image of newsboy from book
Author, Irvine Garland Penn

The book is frequently referenced as an important early work on African-American journalism. John Ernest called Penn's book comprehensive and detailed and the foundation of many later studies. Penn wrote in part to encourage blacks to support black papers.[4] Charles A. Simmons writes that Penn's book along with Armistead S. Prides, A Register and History of Negro Newspapers in the United States: 1827–1950 and Warren Brown's Check List of Negro Newspapers in the United States (1827-1946) are essential starting points for understanding the early history of African American newspapers.[5]

List of individuals profiled in book

List of newspapers and magazines profiled in book
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References
  1. Simons, William M., and Alvin L. Hall, eds. The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002. Vol. 6. McFarland, 2003, p. 217.
  2. Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, The Black Church, in West, Cornel, and Eddie S. Glaude, eds. African American religious thought: An anthology. Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, p. 198.
  3. Hornsby Jr, Alton, ed. A companion to African American history. John Wiley & Sons, 2008, pp. 334–335.
  4. Ernest, John. Liberation historiography: African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794–1861. University of North Carolina Press, 2004, p. 276.
  5. Simmons, Charles A. African American press: a history of news coverage during national crises, with special reference to four black newspapers, 1827–1965. McFarland, 2006, p. 2.
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