The New York Age

The New York Age
"The Afro-American Journal of News and Opinion"
	Cover ofThe New York Ageon November 9, 1918
Type	weekly newspaper
Format	African-American newspaper
Owner(s)	Timothy T. Fortune(1887–1907),; Emanuel Fortune Jr. (1887–1907),; Jerome B. Peterson (1887–1907),; Fred R. Moore(1907–1943)
Editor	Timothy T. Fortune (1887–1907),; Jerome B. Peterson (1887–1907)
Founded	October 15, 1887;137 years ago
City	New York City, New York,United States

The New York Agewas an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time.^[1]It also went by the names theNew York Globe,theNew YorkFreeman,and theNew York Age Defender.

History

Origins, 1884–1887

The New York Agenewspaper was founded as the weeklyNew York Globe(not to be confused with New York's Saturday family weekly,The Globe,founded 1892 by James M. Place or the dailyThe New York Globefounded in 1904), anAfrican-Americannewspaper that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884. It was co-founded by editorTimothy Thomas Fortune,^[2]a former slave;^[3]his brother, Emanuel Fortune Jr.; and editor,Jerome B. Peterson.

The newspaper became the [New York]Freeman,from November 22, 1884 to October 8, 1887, published six times weekly.

1887–1960

On October 15, 1887, the newspaper officially became the weeklyNew York Age.Fred R. Moorebought the paper in 1907 from Fortune brothers and Peterson.^[4]^[5]Peterson continued to work at the paper after the sale, as an advisor; and was made the AmericanconsultoPuerto Cabello,Venezuela,from 1904 to 1906.^[6]^[7]From 1953 to 1957, it was titled theNew York Age Defender.

Gertrude Bustill Mossellworked at theNew York Agefrom 1885 to 1889.W. E. B. Du Boisalso worked there.^[8]

The 1974 Reawakening of the African-American weekly

In 1974, theNew York Agewas revitalized byAdam Clayton Powell IIIin an attempt to recapture the energy and influence the originalAgehad. The new version of the paper initially published 100,000 copies.^[9]The New York Timesreported in 1974: “The paper has six, full‐time reporters and will have bureaus in the Bedford‐Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, in Harlem and in Newark.”^[9]

Personnel

Olive Arnold Adams^[10]^[11]
Bertram Baker, special columns
William A. Clarke, sports editor
Lewis E. Dial, sports column
Richard Durant, music critic
Timothy Thomas Fortune,editor
Emanuel Fortune Jr., editor
William Henderson Franklin,correspondent^[12]
James H. Hogans, wrote news of railroad men and church doings
Vere E. Johns,arts column, art critic^[13]
Jerome B. Peterson,editor^[6]
Ebenzer Ray, special columns
Chester R. Thompson, editor of the Brooklyn section
Lester Walton,theater critic; and son-in-law of the publisher, Fred R. Moore
Ludlow "Buster" Werner(néLudlow Waymouth Werner; 1907–1967) managing editor in 1929; and grandson of Fred R. Moore

References

^Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,Volume 2,pp. 901-02 (2004).
^Horner, Shirley (October 3, 1993)."About Books".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331.RetrievedDecember 19,2007.Timothy Thomas Fortune, a pioneering black journalist, who went on to start The New York Age, once the nation's leading black newspaper, moved to Red Bank in 1901
^H-Net.com:Review of Quigley, David.Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy Archived2007-06-11 at theWayback Machine(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)ISBN 978-0-8090-8513-2
^"Moore, Fred R".Oxford African American Studies Center.RetrievedFebruary 24,2012.^{[dead link‍]}
^"Age Always Has Battled For Improved Conditions".The New York Age.1952-08-23. p. 6.Retrieved2024-03-01– viaNewspapers.com.
^^a ^b"Jerome B. Peterson: Former Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Here".The New York Times.February 22, 1943. p. 17.ISSN 0362-4331– via The Times Machine.
^(no headline - it's the tiny paragraph in the rightmost column on page 4, immediately above the clothing ad)inthe Tacoma Times;published May 16, 1904 (viaChronicling America).
^"PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-06-24.
^^a ^b"New York Age, a Black Weekly, Publishing Again (Published 1974)".The New York Times.1974-04-21.ISSN 0362-4331.Retrieved2020-10-14.
^"Spirit That StartedAgeStill Lives, "by Olive Arnold Adams,New York Age Defender,Vol. 75, No. 24, August 27, 1955, pps. 1–2 (accessibleviaNewspapers.com, p. 1andp. 2;subscription required)
^"Paid Notice: Deaths Adams, Olive Arnold".The New York Times.March 27, 2016.Retrieved2024-06-01.
^Penn, Irvine Garland (1891).The Afro-American Press and Its Editors.unknown library. Springfield, Mass.: Willey & Co. pp. 347–348 – viaInternet Archive.
^"Gladys Bentley Was The Gender Nonconforming, Lesbian Superstar Of The Harlem Renaissance".BUST.2016-11-02.Retrieved2024-06-01.

External links

New York Ageat Chronicling America
New York Ageatfultonhistory.com

[encyc1-1] Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,Volume 2,pp. 901-02 (2004).

[2] Horner, Shirley (October 3, 1993)."About Books".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331.RetrievedDecember 19,2007.Timothy Thomas Fortune, a pioneering black journalist, who went on to start The New York Age, once the nation's leading black newspaper, moved to Red Bank in 1901

[3] H-Net.com:Review of Quigley, David.Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy Archived2007-06-11 at theWayback Machine(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)ISBN 978-0-8090-8513-2

[aasc-4] "Moore, Fred R".Oxford African American Studies Center.RetrievedFebruary 24,2012.^{[dead link‍]}

[5] "Age Always Has Battled For Improved Conditions".The New York Age.1952-08-23. p. 6.Retrieved2024-03-01– viaNewspapers.com.

[:0-6] "Jerome B. Peterson: Former Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Here".The New York Times.February 22, 1943. p. 17.ISSN 0362-4331– via The Times Machine.

[Tacoma-7] (no headline - it's the tiny paragraph in the rightmost column on page 4, immediately above the clothing ad)inthe Tacoma Times;published May 16, 1904 (viaChronicling America).

[8] "PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-06-24.

[:1-9] "New York Age, a Black Weekly, Publishing Again (Published 1974)".The New York Times.1974-04-21.ISSN 0362-4331.Retrieved2020-10-14.

[NYAge-Defender_1955_Aug_27-10] "Spirit That StartedAgeStill Lives, "by Olive Arnold Adams,New York Age Defender,Vol. 75, No. 24, August 27, 1955, pps. 1–2 (accessibleviaNewspapers.com, p. 1andp. 2;subscription required)

[11] "Paid Notice: Deaths Adams, Olive Arnold".The New York Times.March 27, 2016.Retrieved2024-06-01.

[PennIrvineGarland-12] Penn, Irvine Garland (1891).The Afro-American Press and Its Editors.unknown library. Springfield, Mass.: Willey & Co. pp. 347–348 – viaInternet Archive.

[13] "Gladys Bentley Was The Gender Nonconforming, Lesbian Superstar Of The Harlem Renaissance".BUST.2016-11-02.Retrieved2024-06-01.

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