Black Expression in Black and White: A Quest for National Identity

The Black Press, 1827-1890: The Quest for National Identity
Edited by Martin E. Dann
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This book is a compilation of more than fifty Black newspapers from across the United States. Martin E. Dann indicates to readers that “material contained in the book is drawn from the collection of Black newspapers on microfilm located at the Schomburg Library in New York. The selections presented in The Black Press depict widely divergent points of view ranging from considered arguments for Black colonization to impressioned pleas for political equality, from demands for the organization of Black workingmen to the poignant and bitter attempt of a wife to locate her newly freed husband.”

The book has six sections: The Role of the Black Press, The Black View of American History, The Black Man and Politics, The Black Man and Labor, The Black Exodus, and Creating a Black Community.

The Black Press is dedicated “in memory of those who have died in the struggle for Black liberation.”