Event: St. Louis American is Founded
Brief Description: The weekly St. Louis American, the second-oldest, black-owned newspaper in St. Louis was founded by A. N. Johnson in 1928. In 1927, the St. Louis community expressed a need for a second weekly black newspaper (in addition to the Argus). The driving force was A.N. Johnson, a newspaperman from Baltimore, and his son-in-law, John L. Procope. Other stockholders included N.B. Young, a lawyer; Father D.R. Clarke, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church; attorney Homer G. Phillips; Charles Turpin; Richard Kent; and Arthur Dowd.
Year: 1928
Decade: 1920 - 1929
Beginning Date: Mar. 17, 1928
People
Johnson, A. N.
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