Associated Negro Press

Associated Negro Press
Company typeNews agency
IndustryMedia
FoundedMarch 2, 1919; 105 years ago (March 2, 1919)
FoundersClaude Albert Barnett
Defunct1964; 60 years ago (1964)
Headquarters
Chicago
,
United States
Area served
National, International
Servicesdomestic and foreign news coverage, columns, syndication

The Associated Negro Press (ANP) was an American news service founded in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois by Claude Albert Barnett. The ANP had correspondents, writers, reporters in all major centers of the black population in the United States of America. It supplied news stories, opinions, columns, feature essays, book and movie reviews, critical and comprehensive coverage of events, personalities, and institutions relevant to black Americans. As the ANP grew into a global network. It supplied the vast majority of black newspapers with twice weekly packets.[1][2]

The office of the Associated Negro Press was located at 312 South Clark Street in Chicago. The ANP served about 150 U.S. Negro newspapers and 100 newspapers in Africa in French and English.[3]

It is stated in The Rise & Fall of the Negro Press by Gerald Horne that from 1865 to 1900 approximately 12,000 newspapers catering to African Americans were in existence. From 1933 to 1940 the Office of War Information wrote that there were about 4 million black readers of Black newspapers. The ANP was the first African American news gathering service with African American foreign correspondents.[4]

  1. ^ "Associated Negro Press founded". African American Registry.
  2. ^ "Associated Negro Press Collection". Lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
  3. ^ Horne, Gerald (2017). The Rise & Fall of the Associated Negro Press – Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox. University of Illinois Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0252099762.
  4. ^ Horne, Gerald (2017). The Rise & Fall of the Associated Negro Press – Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox. University of Illinois Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0252099762.