African American Experience in Missouri Lecture Series – Debra Foster Greene

To Educate and Elevate: The African American Press in Missouri

Presented by DEBRA FOSTER GREENE, Professor Emeritus of History, Lincoln University

The African American Press has a long history of agency and activism. Dating its founding from 1827 with the publication of Freedom’s Journal in New York, the press has a legacy of protest and a history of the struggle for survival. Between 1875 and 1970, Missouri was home to more than 60 black-owned newspapers. Join Debra Foster Greene, professor emeritus of history from Lincoln University and a noted scholar of African American Business History, for a look at the lives and works of several African American newspaper publishers and editors in the Show-Me State.

A collaboration of the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies and the University of Missouri’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

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