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Associated Negro Press (ANP)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

Raymond Gavins
Raymond Gavins
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Duke University, North Carolina
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Based in Chicago, ANP was the oldest black newspaper service. Founded in 1919 by Claude A. Barnett, who remained its director until his death, it served an increasing number of newspapers.

ANP claimed about 114 subscribers, mostly weeklies, by 1935. Besides news stories and opinion articles, it provided essays as well as book and movie reviews. It also supplied by-lined columns on race relations from key journalists, including William L. Pickens (1881–1954), field secretary of the NAACP. Their contributions articulated African American dignity and demands for civil rights and economic justice. Barnett contributed pieces on the plight of tenant farmers.

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The Cambridge Guide to African American History , pp. 24
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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References

Hogan, Lawrence D.A Black National News Service: The Associated Negro Press and Claude Barnett. Haworth, NJ: St. Johann Press, 2002.
Washburn, Patrick Scott. The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006.

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  • Associated Negro Press (ANP)
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.024
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  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.024
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  • Associated Negro Press (ANP)
  • Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina
  • Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History
  • Online publication: 05 March 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.024
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