Word: afro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twanged his final chord. His brother, who is in the Army, visited him one night, with the result that one of the bigwigs of the management foamed and ranted and all but had the soldier thrown out. It's the sort of story that keeps the Afro-American and the Chicago Defender well supplied with copy...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...
...Carl Murphy's Baltimore Afro-American is for Willkie too. The Afro-American, really four papers, publishes in Baltimore (54,330), Washington (18,596), Philadelphia (17,159), Richmond, Va. (5,467), is read by Negroes throughout the East...