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Pbs: The Black Press: Newspapers WebsitePbs: The Black Press: Newspapers Website
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PBS
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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Pbs: The Black Press: Newspapers

Curated by ACT

At this PBS site, read about the histories of eight African-American newspapers: The Chicago Defender, The California Eagle, The Afro-American, The Pittsburgh Courier, Amsterdam News, Atlanta Daily World, Freedom's Journal, and Norfolk Journal and Guide. Read the histories of these newspapers and the movers and shakers behind these Afro-American newspapers. Read their stories. There are great links to other sites that discuss the history of black journalism.

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Concepts

journalism, booker t. washington, frederick douglass

Additional Tags

black newspapers, history of journalism, pbs, african american journalism, carl murphy, charlotta bass, ethel lois payne, gertrude mossell, ida b. wells, joesphine st. pierre ruffin, john henry murphy, john herman henry sengstacke, marcus mosiah garvey, oliver harrington, p.b. young, robert leevann, robert s. abbott, t. thomas fortune, the afro-american, the california eagle, the chicago defender, the pittsburgh courier, w.e.b. dubois, wendell smith, black history of journalism, blacks and newspapers, history, history of african american papers, history of newspapers

Classroom Considerations

  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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