Philip A. Bell, newspaper editor

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NYPL ID number: 1153926

Date:

1891

Creator:

I. Garland Penn, The Afro-American Press and its Editors

Rights:

Manscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Born in New York City in 1808, Philip Bell attended the Mulberry Street School where he was one of Peter Guignon's classmates. After graduation, he threw himself into political activism and became a newspaper man. In 1837, he founded the short-lived Weekly Advocate. After its demise, he collaborated with Sameul Cornish and Charles Ray to start the Colored American which ran until 1842.

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“Philip A. Bell, newspaper editor,” Black Gotham Archive, accessed July 10, 2018, https://archive.blackgothamarchive.org/items/show/107/.