Athens Blade Explained

The Athens Blade
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Motto:	The Arm of Justice Cannot—Will Not Sleep
Type:	Weekly newspaper
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Founders:	Bill Pledger and William Henry Heard
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Headquarters:	Athens, Georgia
Publishing City:	Athens, Georgia
Publishing Country:	United States

The Athens Blade was a short-lived African-American weekly newspaper published in Athens, Georgia.^[1] Its early publishers were Bill Pledger and William Henry Heard.^[2]

See also

• List of African-American newspapers in Georgia

External links

• Web site: Athens blade. . Chronicling America . Library of Congress . 23 July 2021.
• Web site: Athens Blade, Vol.1, No. 21 - Digital Library of Georgia . dlg.usg.edu . 23 July 2021.

Notes and References

1. Book: Thurmond, Michael L. . Sparer . Dorothy . 1978 . A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History, Clarke County School District . 21912464M . The Athens Blade was a short-lived newspaper. Only one year after it was founded, Pledger changed its name to the Atlanta Defiant and moved it to Atlanta. He brought the paper back to Athens two years later, but it lasted only a year or two more. Heard and his "radical pen" moved to South Carolina in 1883, and the following year the Blade disappeared from the scene..
2. Web site: Athens blade.. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.