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Armistead S. Pride / Clint C. Wilson's HISTORY OF THE BLACK PRESS: A REVEALING, HISTORIC BOOK
EDITOR'S NOTE: I couldn't let March slip away without commenting on the very definitive and excellent work chronicaling the history of the Black Press form 1827 to the present day. This 284 page book, complete with photographs compiled by Los Angeles' Dr. Clint C. Wilson II, noted scholar and professor, Department of Communications - Howard University, with the aid of the historic papers of the late Dr. Armistead S. Pride, Dean of the School of Journalism, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri. Extensive notes and papers of Dr. Pride were made available to Howard University by his widow Marie. Comments about the book follows. - LIBBY CLARK
Armistead S. Pride and Clint C. Wilson It's history of the Black press in America is a welcome and long overdue study of the seminal role that the Black press has played in recording American history, in interpreting that history for a predominantly Black audience, and in serving as Black America's voice. From the time that John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish declared--in Freedom's Journal's inaugural edition in March 1827--that Black America wished to plead its own cause, the Black press has served its people and its nation well.
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is pleased that Dr. Wilson, a scholar and professor of journalism in the School of Communications at Howard University, agreed to collaborate with the staff at the center and at the Howard University Press to bring this important work to fruition. Not since ??? Garland Penn's The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (1891) has such an effort been successfully undertaken. Based on a well-researched manuscript in Dr. Pride's papers from the manuscript division of the MSRC, this history benefits substantially from Dr. Wilson's efforts to update and contemporize Dr. Pride's original research. The MSRC is deeply indebted to both scholars and to Dr. Pride's widow, Marie, for making his research materials available and for supporting our efforts to see his research published. The history makes an important contribution to African-American historiography.
Thomas C. Battle, Director
Moorland-Springarn Research Center (MSRC)
Howard University
I first met Dr. Armistead S. Pride when I was a student at Missouri's Lincoln University in the...