Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Bee Publishing Company |
Publisher | Bee Publishing Company |
Editor | William Calvin Chase |
Founded | June 3, 1882 |
Language | American English |
Ceased publication | January 21, 1922 |
Headquarters | 1109 I Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20005[1] |
Country | United States |
ISSN | 1940-7424 |
OCLC number | 10587828 |
The Washington Bee was a Washington, D.C.–based American weekly newspaper founded in 1882 and primarily read by African Americans.[2] Throughout almost all of its forty-year history, it was edited by African American lawyer-journalist William Calvin Chase. The newspaper was aligned with the Republican Party. It was published, with gaps in 1893 and 1895, until 1922, shortly after editor Chase's death.[3]