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Newspaper Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal (New York, N.Y.) 18??-18??

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About Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal (New York, N.Y.) 18??-18??

At least four issues of the Black Republican and Office-Holder’s Journal were published, the first on August 10, 1865. The four-page, handwritten issue published under the pseudonym “Pluto Jumbo” is a parody of Black newspapers of the time, including made-up names, illustrations, poems, ballads, and news articles that mocked the work of contemporaneous Black editors and their supporters. As noted in the article “What the Folk Printed: Verse Culture and the Black Press in 1865 New Orleans” by Laurel Hankins, the paper was likely published in New York city because its primary targets of ridicule are James Gordon Bennet, publisher of the New York Herald, a pro-Lincoln paper, and Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New-York Daily Tribune, a prominent anti-slavery paper. The title serves as an example of the extent to which Reconstruction did little to change the minds of those who objected to the rise of the Black press in both the southern and northern United States.

This parody issue in the Miscellaneous Negro newspapers microfilm collection was likely included in the collection by accident, with the original curators of the collection hoping to be as comprehensive as possible since few issues endure of most 19th century African American newspapers. Three additional issues dated from August and September 1865 are found outside the microfilm collection in other libraries.

The Miscellaneous Negro newspapers microfilm collection is a 12 reel collection containing issues of African American newspapers published in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Creation of the microfilm project was sponsored by the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1947. For more information on the microfilm collection, see: Negro Newspapers on Microfilm, a Selected List (Library of Congress), published in 1953. While this collection contains selections from more than 150 U.S. newspapers titles, for further coverage, view a complete list of all digitized African American titles available in the Chronicling America collection.

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal (New York, N.Y.) 18??-18??

Dates of Publication

  • 18??-18??

Created / Published

  • New York, N.Y. : Pluto Jumbo

Headings

  • -  Parody--African Americans--Newspapers
  • -  New York (N.Y.)--Newspapers
  • -  African American newspapers
  • -  African Americans
  • -  New York (State)
  • -  New York (State)--New York
  • -  United States--New York--New York--New York

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  "...an entry for the Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal, which turns out to be a single-issue parody of black newspapers."--African American Review.
  • -  Microfilmed by the Library of Congress for the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Studies.
  • -  Description based on: Aug. 10, 1865; title from title page.
  • -  Latest issue consulted: Number 4 (September, 1865); American History, 1493-1945 (online) (viewed February 16, 2018).

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper
  • AN

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn85042252

OCLC Number

  • 12006614

ISSN Number

  • 2994-9785

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Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal New York, N.Y. 18??-18??. (New York, NY), 18??. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn85042252/.

APA citation style:

(18??) Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal New York, N.Y. 18??-18??. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn85042252/.

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Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal New York, N.Y. 18??-18??. (New York, NY) 18??. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn85042252/.