Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Fearless Dark Journalist Too Anti-Lynching Crusader

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk02wGS6c2xteesEt9n1v0LJ1dgkuxK9jUMz3ZfGjD8x9ynn4NURJZ3DnrZvLWsbmbPD5FUutWG_jULz2kClPEy2dJLHZaLujSwo5C-K0iJklaWZWd_7xjREX2ZS55YMXKaJ8153KRwA0/s1600-h/Ida_B__Wells_Barnett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk02wGS6c2xteesEt9n1v0LJ1dgkuxK9jUMz3ZfGjD8x9ynn4NURJZ3DnrZvLWsbmbPD5FUutWG_jULz2kClPEy2dJLHZaLujSwo5C-K0iJklaWZWd_7xjREX2ZS55YMXKaJ8153KRwA0/s400/Ida_B__Wells_Barnett.jpg" width="325" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(b. July 16, 1862 – d. March 25, 1931)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Ida B. Wells was born inward Holly Springs, Mississippi on born July 16, 1862 together with would cash inward one's chips a fearless anti-lynching crusader together with renowned African American journalist inward the Americas.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>IDA B. WELLS IN MEMPHIS</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells attended Rust College together with Fisk University earlier coming to learn inward the Memphis world schoolhouse system. While inward Memphis, Wells wrote for the Free Speech weekly newspaper. She was besides an avid diarist inward her early on years together with Miriam DeCosta-Willis edited some of her diary writings every bit The Memphis Diaries of Ida B. Wells (Beacon Press, 1995). In 1891, Wells was banned from educational activity amongst the Memphis world schools because her articles spoke out against racial injustices together with to a greater extent than peculiarly the lynching epidemic.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells became editor of the Free Speech paper inward Memphis together with began her anti-lynching activism, specifically challenging the notion that Black men were beingness lynched because they raped white women. Reacting against an unwrap she wrote nearly the activities of a lynch mob, the Memphis printing offices of the Free Speech were torched together with Ida was threatened amongst lynching. Wells fled Memphis for New York together with worked on the staff of the New York Age paper edited yesteryear T. Thomas Fortune. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>IDA B. WELLS BARNETT IN CHICAGO</b></div> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtolvQSYq6AUAeMmKr3Y5-i2qhYCbUbl2g91Swd2FAj5-PSMNF9eETJu0BKf5homtIk7cz0ymit1DckiwRV_o2q0nFe6_DenmbeHjL-JxQ4c9Zc9TNc04luPWd4LKlMj9nPe9RS3ghb2c/s1600-h/Ida_B_Wells_House+in+Bronzeville.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtolvQSYq6AUAeMmKr3Y5-i2qhYCbUbl2g91Swd2FAj5-PSMNF9eETJu0BKf5homtIk7cz0ymit1DckiwRV_o2q0nFe6_DenmbeHjL-JxQ4c9Zc9TNc04luPWd4LKlMj9nPe9RS3ghb2c/s400/Ida_B_Wells_House+in+Bronzeville.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Ida B. Wells Barnett's dwelling inward Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois; <br /> Address: 3624 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.; Year Built: 1889</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1895, Wells married attorney together with Chicago paper possessor Ferdinard Barnett. Her political together with social activism continued inward Chicago. At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, she together with Frederick Douglass campaigned for the institution of a pavilion to honour the accomplishments of Black Americans. She wrote together with distributed a pamphlet entitled "Why the Colored American is Not inward the World's Columbia Exposition" at the pes of the Statute of Columbia at the Corner of Cornell together with Hayes Drives inward Chicago. That same twelvemonth Wells began writing for the Conservator, Chicago's kickoff African American newspaper. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Wells is noted every bit i of the 25 outstanding women inward Chicago's history. One of Chicago's housing projects was named inward her honor. Ida B. Wells Barnett's old dwelling inward Chicago is located at 3624 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive together with yet stands inward this famed Bronzeville community. Her Chicago dwelling was designated a National Historic Landmark inward 1974.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SCsQz0He5Mg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SCsQz0He5Mg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> </div>

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Fearless Dark Journalist Too Anti-Lynching Crusader

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s1600-h/Robert_s_abbott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIf40NS7cIkITF1GPxwug9pl2oHNPLEQApLVTqI7ZXrBu-I4UC-NvaXIRt1fAZ2jbPSoeGCBO7LaztyusWq0sr80Q_bGCCsTfSoTiDPCXMy8TX0wR5XPwUHIAWH7l99bsOUboTbEE__Y/s200/Robert_s_abbott.jpg" width="264" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Robert Sengstacke Abbott </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940)</span></span></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Thomas Abbott, his father, was born into slavery inward the US, but died when his boy was however a baby. In 1869, Robert's mother, Flora Abbott, married John Sengstacke from a wealthy High German merchant immigrant family. Robert retained his belatedly father's get upwards in addition to took his pace father's get upwards every bit his middle name.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> From 1892 to 1896, Robert studied the printing merchandise at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University). By 1898, Robert earned a constabulary grade from Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He skillful constabulary inward Gary, Indiana, Topeka, Kansas, in addition to Chicago, Illinois. Ultimately, he decided that he could amend battle the arrangement of white supremacy racial injustice through the majority media instead of the courtroom. Robert pose downwards his constabulary books in addition to picked upwards his printing press. He would study the challenges in addition to successes of African Americans, tidings that was of import to their lives.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <b>THE CHICAGO DEFENDER NEWSPAPER</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> With reportedly every bit niggling every bit 25 cents capital, Robert began the most widely-circulated Black paper inward the United States. The Chicago Defender paper became the medium to vocalism the concerns of African Americans inward Chicago. The paper made many outstanding contributions to journalism in addition to ultimately to Black history. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKcao0QyVQ5tcKLbYpXAvUBX2RPTFfwIcKJxCFKXxXvVPFb-MAyaJ_P265VUCod1-1ie_Eizm4M4R0wpEVNaxz8n_LNMcjQcExHd_seFLFDQHIAJywYY9EKQMWE28bT1fpqyNRxZ82sM/s400/Chicago+Defender+July+31+1948.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of Chicago Defender headline.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Established inward Nov 29, 1905, the Chicago Defender would operate the longest running African American paper publication inward Chicago. The telephone substitution of data from North to South -- through both the Chicago Defender in addition to correspondence betwixt relatives -- accelerated the Great Migration of African Americans to Chicago, resulting inward an growth of 150% inward the population of Black Chicago betwixt 1910-1920.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s1600/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELtKwHsET3j0jMy3gNzkbks9-8295Fx1C7DKJ-DxnLUTl5s4ezpTxU4R9BkGX0BY9QKJJzc6gJKUSR_hOl4sSyP-pgKD785C3V4eRy7xJishCpP9XS-dwyLvY4zO8p_Sek3en2gWnP8g/s320/Chicago+Defender+Banned.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">City officials inward Arkansas town seek ban on Chicago Defender newspaper.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The Great Migration of African Americans from U.S. southern states to Chicago was inward utilisation fueled yesteryear the Chicago Defender's vocalism against injustice in addition to grand accounts of northern living at the attack of the U.S. industrial revolution. Originally housed inward a converted synagogue from 1920 to 1960, the Chicago Defender quickly developed into both the country's premier root for tidings of the northern migration of African Americans.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s1600/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5re3DdD9n5IdvWLS28G3XMcz8XkDP-MgF-oXEKBjqqZQJG2pwQZ6Hx8fsyj5FB7uei7bJ1fU-KVuPBAuw6ps-Q1RdKxu86hvb4rtUmWDtF79qRC01tgh9ou-nvw0vdDm0E28xFeutXAI/s400/Chicago+Defender+operations.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicago Defender typesetters reach community tidings for majority distribution.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Black Pullman Porters, who were prosperous in addition to good respected inward the African American communities, became the Defender's national "delivery  men," distributing the newspapers to many southern towns. The paper became an of import communication tool betwixt Black Chicagoans in addition to their relatives inward the southern states. </div> <div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> "My friends made fun of me," Robert is reported to convey said most the tremendous opposition to his establishing the Chicago Defender. "They idea it was foolish of me to anticipate success inward a plain inward which then many men earlier me had failed...but I went on fighting the opposition of my adversaries in addition to the indifferences of my friends. I emerged victorious but battle-scarred."</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s1600-h/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ocS-4lSOfa9GQCdbOI5RQD2i6Y0I96D9LqIQGkW_U6ZN046Uf8y4U0ct973AmUeU9KIBLjgk8cbRsfMyp_tfO5v8L7j-0aNC_ZBrFZ9Qs4Pn10NMA4r7ZxMy8cTkNcFH_f1mWSd8DHc/s320/Robert_S__Abbott_House%252C_4742_Martin_Luther_King_Drive%252C_Chicago_%2528Cook_County%252C_Illinois%2529.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">The historic dwelling trouble solid of Robert S. Abbott</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(4742 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward Chicago)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In 1929, Robert established the Bud Billiken Club and with David Kellum established Chicago's Bud <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=black-chicago-commemorates-85th-annual" target="_blank">Billiken Parade in addition to Picnic</a>. He resided inward Chicago until his decease from Bright's Disease inward 1940. His home, established every bit a National Historical Landmark inward 1976, was located at 4742 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive inward the Bronzeville community of Chicago. He left the Chicago Defender paper to his nephew John Henry Sengstacke. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s1600-h/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAklwLhTxIL2O-ndIesvy6HUa_3gb5SP54RwbTWeh7Z8Ma8cJny7pXmMs1_juQ9nqDWaW-EHtnnDrqHfJMxQp3hyphenhyphen3TXit3SHVB5EeYUJMlr-Kj0m_M_iW4IgxIYER2ich-9dPokjXHQ-4/s400/Chicago+Defender+Cover+January+5+2007.jpg" width="350" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After to a greater extent than than 100 years of Black publishing history, Chicago Defender's 2007 number headlines local politics.</span></span><br /> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div>

Robert Sengstacke Abbott Too The Increment Of Dark Intelligence Publishing

Photo: Robert Sengstacke Abbott (b. Nov. 24, 1870 - d. Feb. 29, 1940) Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born inward Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Thomas Abbott, his father, was born into sl…

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John H. Johnson: The Johnson Publishing Fellowship Of Chicago

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUVYLxOz1NOZK93ar4LF2Xh9fZN7Hby7Ge635uyjCSQceUpIz3yHzzY4JZxvliR-LVT15wQ9Q_WWvspTfaBUXlVt8QJJF4wioMTUfnUnTJLzcbCS9Ln13KEKoLRnphxvgBLld4vTqUCU/s1600-h/John_H__Johnson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoUVYLxOz1NOZK93ar4LF2Xh9fZN7Hby7Ge635uyjCSQceUpIz3yHzzY4JZxvliR-LVT15wQ9Q_WWvspTfaBUXlVt8QJJF4wioMTUfnUnTJLzcbCS9Ln13KEKoLRnphxvgBLld4vTqUCU/s200/John_H__Johnson.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo: John Harold Johnson </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><b>(b. Jan. 19, 1918 – d. Aug. 8, 2005)</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <i>The Johnson Publishing Company, started past times Johnson H. Johnson, is amid the largest Black-owned businesses inwards the United States.</i> <br /> <br /> <b>THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN H. JOHNSON</b><br /> <br /> John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing, was born inwards Arkansas City, Arkansas in 1918. In 1933, he in addition to his woman bring upwardly migrated to Chicago seeking a meliorate instruction for the immature John Johnson. After graduating from DuSable High School, Johnson worked for Henry H. Pace, in addition to therefore president of Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company. <br /> <br /> Johnson was eventually given the trouble to detect tidings items virtually Blacks in addition to compile them amongst tidings of Supreme Life employee activities for an in-house publication. Johnson developed the sentiment of collecting articles into a monthly periodical to last called <i>Negro Digest</i>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fT4Z3avitK2WLxCksoLRuHFtXZVB1oAn_FKK4mMlPV0xzZdxMaG6ZxRT93qLPapVqoO0GwPVERlBsRgpUxLXTobJJ0vuPltk-EeZtCcOrVn7v0qyiw_L539FVCaA01YSEuqKa7GDVkA/s1600-h/johnson+negro+digest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fT4Z3avitK2WLxCksoLRuHFtXZVB1oAn_FKK4mMlPV0xzZdxMaG6ZxRT93qLPapVqoO0GwPVERlBsRgpUxLXTobJJ0vuPltk-EeZtCcOrVn7v0qyiw_L539FVCaA01YSEuqKa7GDVkA/s320/johnson+negro+digest.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> In 1942, Johnson used his mother's novel slice of furniture every bit collateral for a $500 loan to shipping 20,000 letters to Supreme Life insurance policy-holders offering a $2 charter subscription to the <i>Negro Digest</i>. The overwhelming reply marked the outset of the Black media dynasty. Other publications launched past times Johnson was <i>Tan</i> magazine, a truthful confessions means publication, too every bit <i>Ebony Man</i>, <i>Ebony Jr.,</i> in addition to <i>African American Stars.</i><br /> <br /> <b>EBONY AND JET MAGAZINES</b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9d7k6WEQD7YDKHAH_YZOUOpgFwYMJUCIjc0Lh5HsxI3smOncdd0UyeQi7D8GgAUnyG4K3r9Xe5uHxRwtxRjjfmDQbD69e9sIQgc4e1BMHoHbSd3HZbThzA-IcZLL2jALND6uGHayiWxE/s1600-h/johnson+ebony+jet+magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9d7k6WEQD7YDKHAH_YZOUOpgFwYMJUCIjc0Lh5HsxI3smOncdd0UyeQi7D8GgAUnyG4K3r9Xe5uHxRwtxRjjfmDQbD69e9sIQgc4e1BMHoHbSd3HZbThzA-IcZLL2jALND6uGHayiWxE/s320/johnson+ebony+jet+magazine.jpg" /></a></div> <i>Ebony</i> in addition to <i>Jet</i> magazines accept been published from Chicago since 1945 in addition to 1951, respectively. In its 40th twelvemonth of publication, <i>Ebony</i> periodical had reached a circulation of 2,300,000. After which, Johnson began making the listing of the richest individuals inwards the United States. In 1996, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom was bestowed on Johnson past times President Bill Clinton. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvV6_SZJXR6GNg_S_wtSn9u1w2VTSimuOtayRx50l4T0Yz8hTM5KTMGKyHS2bfqwqdPxJ2AkuEpd5L83OodK08cWuLH9yWV_kiXmLjB_0JJTP6OeOBHuLWsJVSDa9JHTcBDHBSM-s2qYk/s1600-h/johnson+fashion_fair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvV6_SZJXR6GNg_S_wtSn9u1w2VTSimuOtayRx50l4T0Yz8hTM5KTMGKyHS2bfqwqdPxJ2AkuEpd5L83OodK08cWuLH9yWV_kiXmLjB_0JJTP6OeOBHuLWsJVSDa9JHTcBDHBSM-s2qYk/s320/johnson+fashion_fair.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> The company's subsidiaries include Fashion Fair Cosmetics in addition to the Ebony Fashion Fair Show. <br /> <br /> Johnson Publishing Company celebrated its 60th anniversary inwards 2002. The publishing fellowship is headquartered inwards a costless standing edifice inwards the South Loop of Chicago at 820 S. Michigan Avenue.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i-ch7QxBIzRPR8-FjAM-dWPdRjZhI1EKwFdK8cyhnSxPFQZmaP5HADGqLlakASqpPfhDYGbXk_77w5dfx1AGfpU7xWuQ-2p48tY7TBh1B3_RHn5zBprUS8q-sJatK_qmsYW7KhgeH_Q/s1600-h/johnson+publishing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i-ch7QxBIzRPR8-FjAM-dWPdRjZhI1EKwFdK8cyhnSxPFQZmaP5HADGqLlakASqpPfhDYGbXk_77w5dfx1AGfpU7xWuQ-2p48tY7TBh1B3_RHn5zBprUS8q-sJatK_qmsYW7KhgeH_Q/s320/johnson+publishing.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo</b>: <b>Entryway to Johnson Publishing Company edifice inwards Chicago</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <i><br /> </i></div> </div>

John H. Johnson: The Johnson Publishing Fellowship Of Chicago

Photo: John Harold Johnson (b. Jan. 19, 1918 – d. Aug. 8, 2005) The Johnson Publishing Company, started past times Johnson H. Johnson, is amid the largest Black-owned businesses inwards the Unit…

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National Association Of Dark Journalists

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJlO0_jJ6TvNpAFMRbUb0jbtVzXmG2SdK-48NGrzmL3OlN5fBFZTo8qvcxzXD0ciouDV6kbjy4RK3II5j84UErb8iIG9uR22kx_7V5gMDTn60O-cXiBI5tu954g5zHV1UVPa_vYs9E2M/s1600/nabj+HALL+OF+FAME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJlO0_jJ6TvNpAFMRbUb0jbtVzXmG2SdK-48NGrzmL3OlN5fBFZTo8qvcxzXD0ciouDV6kbjy4RK3II5j84UErb8iIG9uR22kx_7V5gMDTn60O-cXiBI5tu954g5zHV1UVPa_vYs9E2M/s320/nabj+HALL+OF+FAME.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote><i><p$1>The NABJ rolled out its ruby rug on Jan 27, 2011 at Washington D.C.'s Newseum, inducting 5 legendary journalists into </p$1>the 2011 Hall of Fame and presenting the Ida B. Wells Award Recipient.</i></blockquote><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><p$1><b>NABJ Hall of Fame Inductees </b></p$1></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><p$1><b></b></p$1><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>& Ida B. Wells Award Recipient </b></span></b></span><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br /> </b></span></div><p$1><b><i>Ed Bradley – CBS News ‘60 Minutes’</i></b><br /> <br /> Before his passing inwards 2006, Bradley spent close his entire 39-year career amongst CBS News. At CBS, the homo 1 time described equally "the coolest guy inwards the business” rose to the pinnacle of journalistic achievement. <br /> <br /> <b><i>Merri Dee – WGN-TV Chicago</i></b><br /> <br /> Dee’s 30-year career inwards Chicago broadcasting in addition to her charitable efforts on behalf of children in addition to victims’ rights brand her a standout honoree. <br /> <br /> <b><i>JC Hayward – WUSA-TV Washington</i></b><br /> <br /> Hayward, reporter in addition to anchor of 39 years at Washington, D.C.'s WUSA-TV holds the national tape for a adult woman anchoring the same eve newscast at the same station. <br /> <br /> <b><i>Eugene Robinson – The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <br /> Robinson is a columnist in addition to old assistant managing editor at The Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary inwards 2009. He won for a alternative of columns on the 2008 presidential campaign, in addition to likewise serves equally political analyst for MSNBC.<br /> <br /> <b><i>Ray Taliaferro – KGO Newstalk 810, San Francisco</i></b><br /> <br /> Ray was the outset dark verbalise demo host on a major marketplace radio station inwards the country. Taliaferro has literally owned the Bay Area's overnight radio listening audience since 1986 when his verbalise demo moved to the 1 to 5 a.m. fourth dimension slot.</p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1><b></b> </p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1><b>IDA B. WELLS AWARD RECIPIENT: </b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><p$1><b></b></p$1><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUr9KUy7cjJbKpyGkX-_tAFQIuNSRPV9LthulhhAp0GVn9JGxsVhwqp7mkOV_HWUZN28j6u0zsQDYQrmUeDmp12IbzlNIdCkmfrzvI2kxWH-KOjvsF9lk1a115qTNxs25qedFxLS_A7Mc/s1600/Photo+of+Walterene+Swanston%252C+National+Association+for+Black+Journalists+Ida+B.+Wells+Award+Recipient+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUr9KUy7cjJbKpyGkX-_tAFQIuNSRPV9LthulhhAp0GVn9JGxsVhwqp7mkOV_HWUZN28j6u0zsQDYQrmUeDmp12IbzlNIdCkmfrzvI2kxWH-KOjvsF9lk1a115qTNxs25qedFxLS_A7Mc/s200/Photo+of+Walterene+Swanston%252C+National+Association+for+Black+Journalists+Ida+B.+Wells+Award+Recipient+2011.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><p$1><b><br /> </b></p$1><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><i>Walterene Swanston – National Public Radio (NPR)</i></b></span></b></div><b> </b><p$1><b><i></i></b><b><i><br /> </i></b> </p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1>The annual Ida B. Wells Award honour highlights the achievement of a media executive who has demonstrated a commitment to diversifying the nation's newsrooms in addition to improving the coverage of people in addition to communities of color. </p$1><p$1>Walterene Swanston is the NABJ's 2011 Ida B. Wells Award Recipient. </p$1><p$1></p$1><p$1>Swanston is a multifariousness consultant in addition to a retired manager of multifariousness administration for National Public Radio. Swanston has a decades-long professional person rails tape equally a champion of media diversity. For to a greater extent than than 25 years, she has worked amongst newspapers, boob tube in addition to radio stations to recruit, promote, develop in addition to retain people of color in addition to women. <br /> <br /> <b><i>Information source: Nabj.org</i></b><br /> <br /> </p$1><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p$1></p$1></div><p$1></p$1></div>

National Association Of Dark Journalists

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Freedom's Journal: The Root African American Paper (Photo Image)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">FREEDOM'S JOURNAL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">The outset Black paper of tape printed inwards the U.S.A. was Freedom's Journal, </div><div style="text-align: center;">published inwards New York City inwards 1827.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/500169/original.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> </div>

Freedom's Journal: The Root African American Paper (Photo Image)

FREEDOM'S JOURNALThe outset Black paper of tape printed inwards the U.S.A. was Freedom's Journal, published inwards New York City inwards 1827. …

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