(1879) Ferdinand L. Barnett, “Race Unity”
Today Ferdinand L. Barnett is best known as the husband of anti-lynching crusader, Ida Wells Barnett. However by 1879, Barnett, a graduate of Chicago’s College of Law and editor the Chicago Conservator, the city’s first black newspaper, which he founded in 1878, was one of … Read More(1879) Ferdinand L. Barnett, “Race Unity”