A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1929

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 970

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1033

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 764

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 590

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 109

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1440

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1374

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 485

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 755

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 595

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 589

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1512

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1661

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1741

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 677

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1357

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1375

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 492

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1736

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1365

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 489

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined offset: 1251

Filename: libraries/RDF_Object.php

Line Number: 1027

Politics & Voting
Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers

Politics & Voting

Access to the ballot and political representation has been an important issue for black people since Emancipation. Black newspapers chronicled this ongoing fight for political equality. While the political views of African-American newspaper owners and editors were not monolithic—the Norfolk Journal and Guide and Atlanta Daily World, for example, were more moderate than the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier—each paper attended to a range of political activities. Pages of the black press featured coverage of voter registration drives, such as Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wilder’s efforts to register rural voters in Pickens County, Alabama, in the early 1980s; tracked the presidential runs of Shirley Chisholm and Jesse Jackson; and praised other pioneering campaigns, such as Robert N.C. Nix Sr., the first African American to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Vel Phillips, the first black woman to win a statewide election in Wisconsin. The black press also kept close tabs on legal efforts to secure the right to vote, as well as attempts to keep blacks from the polls.

Explore this thematic path with over twenty articles related to Politics & Voting: