The taking back

The Afro-American

Baltimore, Md. · April 29, 1893

Still publishing today

John H. Murphy Sr. was born enslaved, fought for the Union, and at fifty-two merged three church bulletins into a newspaper. This copy is from its first year. It is still publishing — the longest-running Black family-owned newspaper in the United States, now in its fifth generation. Everything else on this page is history. This one is a going concern.

Published

Baltimore, Md.

Run

1892–1899, and still publishing as the AFRO

This issue

April 29, 1893

Catalog no.

sn83009626

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The scan opens at the Library of Congress, where you can zoom into the type and turn to the inside pages. Public domain.