Book/Printed Material Newspaper ProQuest historical newspapers. The Baltimore Afro-American Also known as: ProQuest historical black newspapers / Baltimore Afro-American / Afro-American (1893- ) / Historical Afro-American / Title from database list: News, historical Baltimore Afro-American

Title

• ProQuest historical newspapers. The Baltimore Afro-American

Other Title

• Also known as: ProQuest historical black newspapers
• Baltimore Afro-American
• Afro-American (1893- )
• Historical Afro-American
• Title from database list: News, historical Baltimore Afro-American

Summary

• A searchable database of full-text and full-image newspaper articles published in: the Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : 1892), the Afro-American Ledger (Baltimore, Md.), and the Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : 1915).

Created / Published

• [Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest LLC

Headings

• -  African Americans--Newspapers--Databases
• -  Baltimore (Md.)--Newspapers--Databases
• -  African American newspapers--Maryland--Baltimore--Databases
• -  African Americans--History--19th century--Sources--Databases
• -  African Americans--History--20th century--Sources--Databases
• -  African American newspapers
• -  African Americans
• -  Maryland--Baltimore
• -  1800-1999
• -  United States--Maryland--Baltimore

Genre

• Databases
• History
• Newspapers
• Sources

Notes

• -  "Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy Sr. when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy's daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal employment rights, urged African-American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks. In the 1930s, The Baltimore Afro-American launched "The Clean Block" campaign, which is still in existence today, to clean up inner-city neighborhoods and fight crime. It stationed correspondents in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, providing first-hand reports to readers. In the 1950s, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the newspaper's efforts contributed to the outlawing of public school segregation."--Brochure
• -  Contents viewed on June 29, 2015.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• E185.5

Source Collection

• Contained in (work): ProQuest historical newspapers. Black newspapers.

Digital Id

• https://search.proquest.com/hnpbaltimoreafricanamerican/publicationbrowse/Main/false External
• https://search.proquest.com/hnpbaltimoreafricanamerican External

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2016254304

OCLC Number

• 285492609

Access Advisory

• Access limited to subscribers.

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record