Lillian A. Lewis

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Lillian A. Lewis
Lillian A. Lewis circa 1897
Born1861
Alma materBoston Normal School
OccupationJournalist

Lillian A. Lewis (born in 1869) was the first African American woman journalist in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She started her career in the 1880s with the Boston Advocate, a Black community newspaper, and began writing for the Boston Herald in the 1890s. To disguise her gender, she used the pen name "Bert Islew."[2]

  1. ^ Hayden, Robert C. (1991). African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years. Boston Public Library. p. 113. ISBN 0890730830.
  2. ^ "Personal." Freeman (Indianapolis, Indiana) I, no. 25, February 9, 1889: [1]. Readex: African American Newspapers.