1837 |
Rev. Samuel Cornish publishes The
Colored American, formerly the Weekly Advocate, from 1837 to 1842.
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In New York City, David
Ruggles publishes the Mirror of Liberty, the first Black magazine.
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1843 |
The African Methodist
Episcopal Church buys The Mystery, a Black newspaper in Pittsburgh published by
Martin Delany, renaming it the Christian Herald.
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1847 |
Frederick Douglass publishes
the North Star newspaper in Rochester, N.Y.
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1852 |
African Methodist Episcopal
Church moves to Philadelphia and renames the Christian Herald to the Christian
Recorder, making this the oldest continuously published Black publication through the
1890's.
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1860 |
After the founding of Freedom's
Journal until the start of the Civil War, approximately forty Black newspapers began
and ceased publication.
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1864 |
The first Black daily
newspaper in the United States, the New Orleans Tribune, is published three times
per week in English and French.
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