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This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Delaware. It includes both current and historical newspapers.

The first known African American newspaper published in Delaware was Our National Progress, which from 1869 to 1875 was published simultaneously in Wilmington and other cities in the Mid-Atlantic states, and was "viewed by some as the only national Black paper in the corridor between Washington and New York." Other notable Delaware papers include The Advance (1899–1901), and the Wilmington Advocate, which noted poet and journalist Alice Dunbar Nelson operated from 1920 to 1922.

The majority of such newspapers have been published in Wilmington, the state's capital. However, for much of its history Wilmington's African American population was too small to support even one such newspaper at a time. Irvine Garland Penn, who tabulated the African American newspapers in circulation in 1880 and 1890 in The Afro-American Press and Its Editors, did not list a single Delaware newspaper for either year. For much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when no African American paper operated, news of the community was shared in a column in one of Wilmington's white weeklies, the Sunday Morning Star.

Newspapers

See also

• List of African American newspapers and media outlets
• List of African American newspapers in Maryland
• List of African American newspapers in New Jersey
• List of African American newspapers in Pennsylvania
• List of newspapers in Delaware

Works cited

• Dalleo, Peter T. (2014). "African American Abolitionist and Kinship Connections in Nineteenth-Century Delaware, Canada West, and Liberia". In De B’Béri, Boulou Ebanda; Reid-Maroney, Nina; Wright, Handel Kashope (eds.). The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond. University of Toronto Press. pp. 149–175. ISBN 9781442615335. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt6wrgjz.
• Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.
• Patton, Venetria K.; Honey, Maureen, eds. (2001). "Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)". Double-take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813529301.
• Penn, Irvine Garland (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Willey & Company.

References

1. ^ "About Our national progress. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1869-1875". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
2. Dalleo 2014, p. 169.
3. ^ "About The advance. [online resource] (Wilmington, Del.) 1899-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
4. ^ Patton & Honey 2001, p. 145.
5. ^ Woolard-Provine, Annette (2003). Integrating Delaware: The Reddings of Wilmington. University of Delaware Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780874137842.
6. Penn 1891, p. 114.
7. ^ "About People's beacon. (Dover, Del.) 1945-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
8. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 189, ¶ 1969.
9. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 430, ¶ 4474.
10. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 8, ¶ 84.
11. James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2. Harvard University Press. p. 615. ISBN 9780674627345.
12. "Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Wilmington Advocate". University of Delaware Special Collections. 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
13. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 49, ¶ 505.
14. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 190, ¶ 1972.
15. "About The Defender. (Wilmington, Del.) 1965-1967". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
16. "About The Delaware defender. (Wilmington, Del.) 1962-1965". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
17. "About The Delaware Valley defender. (Wilmington, Del.) 1967-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
18. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 189, ¶ 1970.
19. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 190, ¶ 1971.
20. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 190, ¶ 1974.
21. "About The Delaware star. (Wilmington, Del.) 1976-1978". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
22. "About The Delaware Valley star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1978-1984". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
23. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 231, ¶ 2416.
24. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 243, ¶ 2542.
25. ^ "About Wilmington herald times. (Wilmington, Del.) 1941-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
26. Penn 1891, p. 110.
27. Dalleo 2014, p. 175.
28. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 460, ¶ 4793.
29. "About The People's pulse. (Wilmington, Dela.) 1968-1970". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
30. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 532, ¶ 5552.
31. Afro-American Encyclopedia: Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race. Haley & Florida. 1895. p. 131.

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