Associated Negro Press

E716699

Associated Negro Press was a prominent African American news service that supplied national and international news to Black newspapers across the United States and abroad during much of the 20th century.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Associated Negro Press canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf African American organization
news agency
wire service
cityOfHeadquarters Chicago
continentOfHeadquarters North America
countryOfOrigin United States
coveredTopic U.S. politics
civil rights movement
colonialism in Africa
international affairs
race relations
dissolved 1960s
distributedTo African American newspapers
Black newspapers abroad
Black newspapers in the United States
distributionMethod editorials
feature articles
syndicated news stories
ethnicFocus African American
linked to: Black Americans
focus African American issues
civil rights coverage
international news
national news
foundedAfterEvent World War I
foundedBy Claude A. Barnett
Claude Albert Barnett
foundedInCity Chicago
foundedInState Illinois
genre news service
headquartersLocation Chicago, Illinois
historicalSignificance expanded international coverage for African American readers
major source of news for Black newspapers
strengthened the Black press network
inception 1919
industry journalism
news media
mediaType news syndicate
notableFounder Claude A. Barnett
operatedInCentury 20th century
operationalStatus defunct
partOf Black press in the United States
primaryLanguage English
servedCommunity African Americans
linked to: Black Americans

African diaspora
serviceArea Africa
Caribbean
Europe
United States
stateOfHeadquarters Illinois

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Frank Marshall Davis wroteFor Associated Negro Press