New York Age

The New York Age was a black newspaper from 1887 to 1953, and was one of the most influential black newspapers of its time.[1]

The paper had it origins as the weekly New York Globe (not to confused with the daily The New York Globe founded in 1904), an African-American newspaper, that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. Co-founded by editor Timothy Thomas Fortune, a former slave,[2] it became The [New York] Freeman from November 22, 1884 to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly.

The paper then became the weekly New York Age from October 15, 1887 to February 27, 1960. From 1953 to 1957, it was titled New York Age Defender.

W.E.B. Du Bois also worked there.[3]

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Volume 2, p.901-02 (2004)
  2. ^ H-Net.com: Review of Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004) ISBN 978-0-8090-8513-2
  3. ^ "PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project". http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/dubois.html.