Associated Negro Press

CTL-E-0336 · Institution · other · 1919–1964 or 1967

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The first national news wire service for African-American newspapers, founded in Chicago in 1919 by Claude Albert Barnett and headquartered at 312 S. Clark Street.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001, MEDIA-001, BPM-003, BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:b-anp, CTL-DR-BPM-003:svc-anp, CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-018, CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-009; source research type(s): News service/organization, Organization, institution, network.

Sources

• Wikipedia (Associated Negro Press); Stanford King Institute; Nieman Reports (Harvard)
• Wikipedia (Associated Negro Press)
• Wikipedia; African American Registry
• Chicago History Museum
• Lawrence Hogan (scholarly)
• Multiple secondary
• To Claude Barnett Stanford King Institute kinginstitute.stanford.edu (King Papers)
• Timeline: Milestones of the Black Press in the U.S. Nieman Reports niemanreports.org
• The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press; LOC newsreel inventory mbrs01841243 (primary source)
• http://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/claude-barnett
• https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01841243/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Negro_Press
• Wikipedia (Associated Negro Press); Nieman Reports timeline
• Nieman Reports; African American Registry; Wikipedia (Claude Albert Barnett)

Record CTL-E-0336 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 14 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: GLOBAL-001, MEDIA-001, BPM-003, BCI-001.
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