Baltimore Afro-American
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| Type | weekly |
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| Format | tabloid |
| Publisher | John J. Oliver Jr. |
| Editor | George E. Curry |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Headquarters | 2519 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218  United States |
| Official website | [1] |
The Baltimore Afro-American, commonly known as The Afro, is a weekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It is the flagship newspaper of the Afro-American chain and the longest-running African-American family-owned newspaper in the United States.[1] [2]
[edit] History
The newspaper was founded in 1892 by a former slave, John H. Murphy, Jr., who merged his church publication, The Sunday School Helper, with two other church publications, The Ledger and The Afro-American. The publication began to rise in prominence when, in 1922, Carl Murphy took control and served as its editor for 45 years. There have been as many as 13 editions of the newspaper in major cities across the country; today there are just two: one in Baltimore, and the other in Washington, D.C.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Baltimore City Newspapers". Johns Hopkins University Library. http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/baltimore/newspapers.html. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- ^ Farrar, Hayward (1998-05-30). The Baltimore Afro-American: 1892-1950. Greenwood Press. pp. 240. ISBN 0-313-30517-X. http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM0517.aspx.
- ^ Mining the "Afro-American" Archives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. Summer, 2008.
