California Eagle

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The California Eagle was a 19th and 20th century African American newspaper with the following platform:

  1. "The hiring of Negroes as a matter of right, rather than as a concession, in those institutions where their patronage creates a demand for labor;
  2. "The increased participation of Negroes in municipal, state, and national government; the abolition of enforced segregation and all other artificial barriers to the recognition of true merit;
  3. "The patronizing of Negroes by Negroes as a matter of principle;
  4. "More rapid development of those communities in which Negroes live, by cooperation between citizens and those who have business investments in such communities;
  5. "An enthusiastic support for a greater degree of service at the hands of all social, civic, charitable, and religious institutions."

The newspaper was founded in 1879 by John J. Neimore of Texas as The Owl, and was renamed to California Eagle in 1913 by Charlotta Bass of South Carolina.

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