African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography

"We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us." These words are from the front page of Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper published in the United States, in 1827, a milestone event in the history of an oppressed people. From then on a prodigious and hitherto almost unknown cascade of newspapers, magazines, letters, and other literary, historical, and popular writing poured from presses chronicling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007883
• ISBN13: 9780674007888
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 782 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"