The first newspaper owned by black men was ...
Freedom's Journal
Freedom's Journal folded after two years because ...
The paper lost readers rapidly when the newspaper advocated emancipating slaves and moving them to Africa.
Born in 1817 in Maryland as a slave, he ran away. Later he became a riveting speaker and a newspaper publisher, as well as one of the most important abolitionist figures. He was [a].
Frederick Douglass
The North Star had five black readers for every one white one.
False
By the start of the Civil War, African Americans were owning and publishing how many newspapers in the United States.
40
Which of these statements was not one of the important roles of the former slaves who spoke at meetings that promoted abolition and who wrote for newspapers:
Their stories from their slavehood dispelled the myth that their masters were kind and treated them with charity and compassion
One of the few African-American reporters who covered the Civil War was ...
Thomas Chester
Which of these statements is not true of Ida B. Wells?
She was eventually hanged by the Ku Klux Klan.
What was the Double V campaign?
The Double V Campaign was a campaign for that united the Black race for freedom for all African-Americans. It encouraged African-American freedom from oppression and also did so by finding them jobs. Even the military would offer the African-Americans job
Which of these statements is true of the Pittsburgh Courier?
The high point of its circulation was 350,000 right after World War II.
Who was Harry McAlpin and what was his connection to Kentucky?
Harry McAlpin attended school here in Kentucky. He was the first African-American to be a White House reporter.
In what year was the National Newspaper Publishers Association founded?
1941
(The association, originally the National Negro Publishers Association, was founded in 1941. The name was changed in 1956.)