History of African Americans Newspaper

By Juan Macias

The African American came into existence before the civil war.

When did the African-American newspaper came into existence?

The idea of an African-American newspaper was to give African-American the news through the lens of their own eyes.

What was the idea of an African-American newspaper?

Its not uncommon for cities to have a variety of newspaper (printed in variety of languages) that are aimed at specific racial, ethnic, and religious groups.

What happens now in the U.S?

African-American newspaper were formed in order to make a profit.

What was the economic perspective?

Large newspaper tend to cover the news that would be of interest to the majority (and thus not the minority) of people it is easy to see why people of diverse racial.

What did large newspaper tend to do?

My topic (African-American newspapers) came into existence in 1827 when Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurn started the first African-American periodical called Freedom’s Journal.

African-American newspapers are those newspaper in the United Sates that seek readers primarily of African-American descent.

The definition of my topic

At that time the newspaper stands were successful for some people there was a lot of people that would go buy newspaper to get some news of what's happening around the town.

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”

“African Americans took advantage of their right to be able to read and decided to come up with their own means of expressions. Newspapers were a way for African Americans to communicate with each other”

“Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.”

Quotes

On March 16, 1827 Samuel E. Cornish (1795-1858) and John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851), both well-educated clergymen, began publishing Freedom’s Journal in New York City. Although

it had a relatively short life -- it ceased publication March 28, 1829 issue -- it was important for being the first newspaper

written by and for black Americans. Scholars estimate that by the time of the Civil War, more than 40 black newspapers were

already in circulation.