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Negro Journalism

An Essay on the History and Present
Conditions of the Negro Press

By
GEORGE W. GORE, JR.
Junior in Course in Journalism
De Pauw University

Greencastle, Indiana
1922

Price 35 Cents

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Copyright, 1922
By George W. Gore

This pamphlet does not pretend to be a detailed or scholarlydiscussion of the subject. Lack of experience and funds have limitedthe author to a mere outlining or suggesting of the field. Infact, this essay is only the expansion of a term paper submittedin fulfillment of a semester requirement in the Course in Journalism.

The main purpose of this essay is to show the various stages ofdevelopment through which the Negro press has evolved with aview of furnishing a background for the better understanding ofits present status. It is written, too, to present the problems andinherent possibilities of Negro Journalism; to point out the progresswhich is being made today; and to suggest future possibilities. Ifthis attempt, amateur and incomplete as it may be, in any measureawakens an interest in the achievements and efforts of Negro newspapersand magazines it has served its purpose.

For the period up to 1890, the author frequently has referredto The Afro-American Press and Its Editors by I. Garland Penn—awork which is an authority on the subject for the period coveredby it. A large part of the biographical data and information onpresent day newspapers was obtained from the Negro Year Bookand communications. I especially wish to thank those editors andpublishers who so kindly gave me the information which I desired.

I am also very grateful to The Chicago Defender and The SouthernWorkman of Hampton, Va., for the loan of some cuts.

Especially do I wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance andhelpful criticism of my instructor, Prof. L. E. Mitchell, directorof the Course in Journalism, in DePauw University.

GEORGE W. GORE, JR.

Greencastle, Indiana.