1867 |
The African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church publishes the Star of Zion.
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1879 |
Roi Ottley dubs the editor of
the New York Rumor, Timothy Thomas Fortune, "dean of Black journalism in
America."
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1884 |
Christopher J. Perry publishes
the Philadelphia Tribune, considered the oldest continuously published commercial
Black newspaper in the U.S.
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1888 |
Edward E. Cooper publishes the
Indianapolis Freeman, the first Black illustrated newspaper.
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1889 |
With work appearing in Harper's
Weekly, the first Black political cartoonist, Henry J. Lewis, joins the staff of the Indianapolis
Freeman.
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The first Black graduate of
the U. S. Military Academy at West, Henry O. Flipper, is also the first Black editor of a
White newspaper, the Arizona Sunday Herald, for four months.
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1892 |
John H. Murphy, Sr. publishes
the Afro-American in Baltimore.
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