Afro American (1882-1890, Cincinnati)
Item
Title
Afro American (1882-1890, Cincinnati)
Creator
Peter Clark and Herbert Clark
Location created
Cincinnati, Ohio
Date
1882-1890?
Type
Weekly
Archive
Ohio History Connection
Collection
The African American Experience in Ohio
Identifier
Roll 22531; September 19, 1885.
Rights
Public domain; Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection
Tags
Description
The father-son editors, Peter H. Clark and Herbert Clark, established the Afro-American Publishing Co., to publish the Afro-American, weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio. Before they teamed up for this newspaper, Peter Clark had published the Herlad of Freedom, and Herbert did La Bijou while he taught in Mississippi. One copy is available: Vol. 4, no. 2, on September 19, 1885. The ending date is unclear. Lawrence Grossman's study of Peter Clark ("In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood: The Career of Peter H. Clark," Ohio History Journal, 1977) suggests that the newspaper lasted into the 1890s.
