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Creating Political Authority: The Role of the Antebellum Black Press in the Political Mobilization and Empowerment of African Americans
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Journalism History
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Journalism History Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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From its beginnings in the 1820s, African-American newspapers have always been a strong and vocal ally for the rights of blacks throughout the United States. This article delineates how and why these papers from the mid-1830s to the Civil War became important as platforms of political agency for those who were denied conventional means of political participation in the government. In particular, this study focuses on four avenues through which the newspapers were utilized to afford political agency to Africans Americans: the material and rhetorical support of black suffrage; the promotion and facilitation of public protest; the promotion of material and moral elevation; and the creation and ...
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