The New York Age Explained

The New York Age
Image Alt:The New York Age
Format:African-American newspaper
Type:weekly newspaper
Motto:"The Afro-American Journal of News and Opinion"
Editor:Timothy T. Fortune (1887–1907),
Jerome B. Peterson (1887–1907)
Owner:Timothy T. Fortune (1887–1907),
Emanuel Fortune Jr. (1887–1907),
Jerome B. Peterson (1887–1907),
Fred R. Moore (1907–1943)
Publishing City:New York City, New York, United States

The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time.[1] It also went by the names the New York Globe, the New York Freeman, and the New York Age Defender.

History

Origins, 1884–1887

The New York Age newspaper was founded as the weekly New York Globe (not to be confused with New York's Saturday family weekly, The Globe, founded 1892 by James M. Place or the daily The New York Globe founded in 1904), an African-American newspaper that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. It was co-founded by editor Timothy Thomas Fortune,[2] a former slave;[3] his brother, Emanuel Fortune Jr.; and editor, Jerome B. Peterson.

The newspaper became the [New York] Freeman, from November 22, 1884 to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly.

1887–1960

On October 15, 1887, the newspaper officially became the weekly New York Age. Fred R. Moore bought the paper in 1907 from Fortune brothers and Peterson.[4] [5] Peterson continued to work at the paper after the sale, as an advisor; and was made the American consul to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, from 1904 to 1906.[6] [7] From 1953 to 1957, it was titled the New York Age Defender.

Gertrude Bustill Mossell worked at the New York Age from 1885 to 1889. W. E. B. Du Bois also worked there.[8]

The 1974 Reawakening of the African-American weekly

In 1974, the New York Age was revitalized by Adam Clayton Powell III in an attempt to recapture the energy and influence the original Age had. The new version of the paper initially published 100,000 copies.[9] The New York Times reported in 1974: “The paper has six, full‐time reporters and will have bureaus in the Bedford‐Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, in Harlem and in Newark.”

Personnel

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=NgIYlUbaoAoC&dq=%22New+York+Age%22&pg=PA901 Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Volume 2
  2. News: Horner . Shirley . October 3, 1993 . About Books . December 19, 2007 . . 0362-4331 . Timothy Thomas Fortune, a pioneering black journalist, who went on to start The New York Age, once the nation's leading black newspaper, moved to Red Bank in 1901.
  3. H-Net.com: Review of Quigley, David. Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
  4. Web site: Moore, Fred R. Oxford African American Studies Center. February 24, 2012.
  5. News: 1952-08-23 . Age Always Has Battled For Improved Conditions . 2024-03-01 . The New York Age . 6 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: February 22, 1943 . Jerome B. Peterson: Former Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Here . . 17 . The Times Machine . 0362-4331.
  7. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-05-16/ed-1/seq-4/ (no headline - it's the tiny paragraph in the rightmost column on page 4, immediately above the clothing ad)
  8. Web site: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110624073356/http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/dubois.html . 2011-06-24 .
  9. News: 1974-04-21 . New York Age, a Black Weekly, Publishing Again (Published 1974) . 2020-10-14 . . en-US . 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: March 27, 2016 . Paid Notice: Deaths Adams, Olive Arnold . 2024-06-01 . . en.
  11. Book: Penn, Irvine Garland . The Afro-American Press and Its Editors . 1891 . Willey & Co. . unknown library . Springfield, Mass. . 347–348 . Internet Archive.
  12. Web site: 2016-11-02 . Gladys Bentley Was The Gender Nonconforming, Lesbian Superstar Of The Harlem Renaissance . 2024-06-01 . BUST . en-US.

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