{"id":92,"date":"2024-04-08T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2024-04-17T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:39:07","slug":"the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Messenger<\/em>. May 1923, Educational Number<br>Alice Dunbar Nelson Papers (MSS 0113)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Messenger <\/em>was established in 1917 by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen. Philip A. Randolph was the founder and first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSPC)&nbsp; in which <em>The Messenger<\/em> became the official publication of the BSPC in 1925. The publication was considered to be quite radical as <em>The Messenger<\/em> was founded with the help of the Socialist party. Chandler Owen left the publication in 1923 and gradually, George S. Schulyer and Theophilis Lewis took over. With their editorial influence, <em>The Messenger<\/em> started to promote Black arts, culture, and writers. <em>The Messenger<\/em> only lasted until 1928 when the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters could no longer fund the publication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Messenger. May 1923, Educational NumberAlice Dunbar Nelson Papers (MSS 0113) [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] The Messenger was established in 1917 by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen. Philip A. Randolph was the founder and first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSPC)&nbsp; in which The Messenger became the official publication of the BSPC in 1925. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/black-expression-in-black-and-white\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}