Papers, 1888-1914.

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Papers, 1888-1914.

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Correspondence concerning the newspaper business; the 1888 meeting of the Afro-American Press Association; the political machinations and newspaper policies of T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age; fraternal affairs including the Negro Odd Fellows and the Negro Masons; and Robinson's efforts to obtain a position as doorkeeper in the United States Congress. Correspondents include Blanche K. Bruce, T. Thomas Fortune, John Mitchell, Jr., and Morgan Treat.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6993874

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Negro Odd Fellows.

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Treat, Morgan.

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Mitchell, John, 1815-1875.

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Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928

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T. Thomas Fortune was the foremost African-American journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as an editor, publisher, writer, orator and civil rights leader, using his position at a series of black newspapers in New York City as the leading spokesman and defender of the rights of African Americans in both the South and the North. Fortune's journalism career began in Florida, he moved to New York in 1881, and founded the "New York Freeman...

Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898

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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841 – March 17, 1898) was born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia and went on to become a politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term (Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate but did not complete a full term). In 1868, during Reconstruction, Bruce relocated to Bolivar...

Afro-American Press Association.

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Robinson, Magnus L.

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Journalist and editor of the National Leader. From the description of Papers, 1888-1914. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20115984 Editor of the Leader, an African-American newspaper in Alexandria, Va. From the description of Letters to Magnus L. Robinson, 1867-1905. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32671911 ...