“This archive chronicles African American history. It includes images and stories not published anyplace else.”
Martha Elizabeth Howard, co-founder of the Afro American Newspaper Co. in 1892
But the fuller truth is that his wife came up with the cash to make that venture happen. “She came with $200 to purchase the name and the printing press,” Savannah Wood said of her great-great-great-grandmother Martha Elizabeth Howard. Before she became Mrs. Murphy, that daughter of a Black farm owner sold some Maryland acreage that her formerly enslaved forebears had amassed.
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