THE
AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS,
AND
ITS EDITORS
By I. Garland Penn,
PRINCIPAL IN LYNCHBURG, VA., SCHOOLS, AND EX-EDITOR LYNCHBURG, VA., LABORER, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
Hon. Frederick Douglass, Hon. John R. Lynch, Hon. J. T. Settle, Hon. D. A. Straker, Hon. Jere A. Brown, Hon. T. Thomas Fortune, Hon John Mercer Langston, Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback, Prof. W. S. Scarborough, Prof. J. H. Lawson, Prof. Booker T. Washington, Prof. George E. Stephens, Prof. Frank Trigg, Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D., Rev. J. C. Price, D. D., Rev. T. G. Stewart, D. D.. Rev. A A Burleigh, Rev. L. J. Coppin, D. D., James T Still, M. D., William H. Johnson, M D , and Mrs N. F. Mossell.
Souls dwell in printer's type.—Joseph Ames.
Ink is the blood of the printing Press.—Milton.
Hostile newspapers are more to be feared than bayonets.—Napoleon.
I am myself a gentleman of the press and need no other escutcheon.—Beaconsfield.
In the long fierce struggle for freedom the press, like the church,
counted its martyrs by thousands.—President Garfield.
Springfield, Mass.
WILLEY & CO., Publishers.
1891.
