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Title: The Afro-American press and its editors
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930
Subjects: Press African Americans
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. Willey & co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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le managing editor of The Echo, he was selected by theU. S. Director General of the American Exhibition, held inLondon, England, to represent the young Afro-Americans,which he did with credit. Responding to an inclination to do something to his liking,with three others, he began the publication of TJie Echo in18S2. It was then a small quarter-sheet, with Charles W.Simpson as editor, while Mr. Caldwell became businessmanager. Thus The Echo commenced what has proved, aftermore than seven years experience, a staunch champion ofthe rights and privileges of the Afro-Americans. Mr. Cald-well assumed control as editor and proprietor, with hisbrother, in 1884. Dr. B. T. Tanner, formerly editor of The ChristianRecorder, and now Bishop Tanner, says: In more waysthan one, Tlie Echo is a model which larger and more pre-tentious journals of our people could imitate to their advan-tage. With the motto— To preserve an equable mind,—itpursues the even tenor of its ways, as though it came to stay.
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216 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. TJic National Baptist said of TJic Echo,—It is evidentlywell edited for an amateur paper, and we are glad to seethat it contains nothing trashy and sensational. The Echo warmly endorsed the Industrial School projectof Mrs. F. M. Coppin.. In recognition of The Echo 8 servicesin behalf of this institution, Mrs. Coppin addressed a letterto the editors, thanking them for the interest taken in theenterprise. It reads as follows: I am very much obligedto you for your excellent editorial on Industrial Education,in your last issue. It is impossible to calculate how muchgood is done by a newspaper, in enlightening the minds ofthe people upon great subjects, and, surely, an educationin the use of tools is of first importance in a civilized country.Virgil says: I sing arms and the hero. Carlyle says:* Tools and the man are a far wider kind of epic Young men, like yourselves, Messrs. Editors, are just theones to speak upon this subject. The man that the shoepinches

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