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Black Press
History of Black press in America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the name of the first Black Newspaper in America? | Freedom's Journal |
| When was Freedom's Journal Published? | 1827 |
| Who were the editors of Freedom's Journal? | John Russworm and Samuel Cornish |
| Who founded Freedom's Journal? | A group of free Blacks in New York |
| What was the 13th Amendment? | The 13th Amendment abolished chattel slavery in the United States. |
| What was the 14th Amendment? | The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to the formerly enslaved Africans. |
| What was the name of Frederick Douglass's paper | The North Star |
| When was the North Start first published? | The North Star was first published in 1847. |
| Who was Charlotta Bass? | Charlotta Bass was the editor of the California Eagle. |
| When did the California Eagle cease publication? | The California Eagle ceased publication in 1964. |
| Who was Robert Abbott? | Robert Abbott was the founder, publisher, and editor of the Chicago Defender. |
| Why was the Chicago Defender unique? | It was the only Black newspaper published in the north that also had a circulation in the south. |
| What did the Chicago Defender do that no other Black newspaper had done? | The Chicago Defender encouraged Black to move from the south to the north because of economic advantages resulting from WWI. |
| What were the economic advantages that were available to Blacks in the north, particularly Chicago? | There were jobs in the factories. In Chicago there were jobs in the steel mills and meat packing houses. |
| What event caused these economic opportunities? | World War I. |
| How long was Freedom's Journal published? | Two years |
| Who was the editor of the Memphis Free Speech? | Ida B. Wells. |
| What was Ida B. Wells known for? | She was known for her investigative reporting on lynchings in the south. |
| Who was Robert Vann? | Robert Vann was the editor of the Pittsburgh Courier. |
| Why was Robert Vann given a cabinet post as Asst. Attorney General to President F.D. Roosevelt? | Because he convinced Blacks to switch their allegiance from the Republican to the Democratic Party. |
| Why was it important for Blacks to vote Democratic in the presidential election of 1932? | Because F.D. Roosevelt was a Democrat and he needed the Black vote in order to win the presidential election. |
| Whose idea was the Double "V" campaign? | The campaign was the idea of James Thompson, a cafeteria worker. |
| What did the double "V" stand for? | It stood for victory against the enemy the United States was fighting against in World War I as well as victory for Blacks against racism and second class citizen ship at home in America. |
| Which newspaper did James Thompson write a letter to suggesting the idea of the Double "V" campaign? | The Pittsburgh Courier |
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