Occupation-Newspaper Owner
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870-1940)
Born on December 24, 1870 to formerly enslaved parents in St. Simons, Georgia, Robert Sengstacke Abbott attended Hampton Institute in...
Joseph D.D. Rivers (ca. 1856-1937)
Joseph D.D. Rivers’ name appeared on the second page of The Colorado Statesman (1895–1961), a respected African American weekly newspaper,...
T. Thomas Fortune (1856-1928)
T. Thomas Fortune—African American journalist, editor, and writer—was born into slavery on October 3, 1856 to Sarah Jane and Emanuel...
Beatrice Hulon Morrow Cannady (1889-1974)
Civil rights activist, ambassador of interracial goodwill, editor and publisher of the (Portland) Advocate, Oregon’s first African American female to...
Adolphus D. Griffin (1868-1916)
Adolphus D. Griffin used his self-attained literacy to emerge as a newspaper editor/publisher in the West at the turn of...
John Russwurm (1799-1851)
John Russwurm was a man ahead of his time. Centuries before scholars began debating such issues as “hegemony” and “the...
