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- Title
"No Other But A Negro Can Represent the Negro": How Black Newspapers 'Founded' Black America and Black Britain.
- Authors
Vassell, Olive; Burrough, Todd Steven
- Abstract
The first Black newspaper in the United States, Freedom's Journal, was founded by the small percentage of Blacks who were free in America in 1827. It began publishing during a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that historian Lerone Bennett Jr. called "The Founding of Black America"-a time in which free African-Americans built institutions to establish collective civic life in order to fight two battles: to survive in the East Coast North and to free their enslaved brethren elsewhere in the country. The Black press was founded in Britain with The Pan-African in 1901, a journal of the Pan- Africanist movement. The publication sort to capture and disseminate the ideas of the first Pan-African Conference held in London in 1900. Using Pan-Africanism as a theoretical thread, this chapter compares the founding of the Black press in America with its founding in Britain, comparing and contrasting the different "foundings" on both sides of the Atlantic, showing the centrality of Black newspapers to Black survival and progression.
- Subjects
NEWSPAPER publishing; AFRICAN American social conditions; AFRICAN Americans; FREEDOM &; art; PAN-Americanism; LITERATURE collections
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 4, p256
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article