African American Publications Collection SPC.2018.023
Karen Clemons
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
2024-03
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson, CA 90747
Business Number: 310-243-3895
archives@csudh.edu
Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: African American Publications Collection
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2018.023
Physical Description:
1 box
Physical Description:
.20 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1937-1939, 1945-1946, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1972
Language of Material:
English
.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains issues of publications created for African American and Black audiences such as:
Bronze Thrills,
Color,
Flash Newspicture,
Hep,
Jive,
Sepia, and
Spotlighter.
Biographical / Historical
Sepia was a magazine that featured articles on the achievements of African Americans.
Sepia was founded in 1946 as
Negro Achievements by Horace J. Blackwell, an African American clothing merchant from Fort Worth, Texas. In 1950, George Levitan, a Jewish American
plumbing merchant bought Blackwell's magazines and Good Publishing Company, and gradually changed the name of
Negro Achievements to
Sepia. Good Publishing also owned other magazines catered to Black audiences such as
Hep,
Bronze Thrills, and
Jive. After Levitan's death in 1976,
Sepia was bought by a member of Blackwell's editorial team, Beatrice Pringle. Pringle ceased publication of
Sepia in 1983.
Flash Newspicture Magazine was a Washington D.C. based weekly magazine in print from June 1937-August 1939 created to cater to African Americans, and
featured images and text about African American life during the 1930s.
Flash features photography by Pittsburg photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris, who was the leading photographer for the
Pittsburgh Courier one of the largest Black newspapers in the country.
Sources:
"Review" Reviewed work "Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History" by Cheryl Finely, Laurence Glasco, Joe W. Trotter,
Deborah Wilis.
Biography Vol. 32, No.2 Spring 2012
Flash Weekly Newspicture Magazine, May 3, 1938 https://transcription.si.edu/project/23416
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepia_(magazine)
Related Materials
For more collections featuring African American publications please see: Los Angeles Tribune (1941-1960); Filer Compton Collection;
and California Eagle [publication]
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African Americans -- Culture
African American publications
Black people
box 1, folder 1
Bronze Thrills Vol. 14, No. 8
August 1965
box 1, folder 2
Color Vol. 7, No. 1
February 1951
box 1, folder 3
Flash Newspicture [unnumbered issue], Vol. 2, No. 62, 73, 76
October 25, 1937; August 2, 1938; February 1, 1939; March 15, 1939
box 1, folder 4
HEP Vol. 1, No.2; Vol. 11, No. 6
September Issue 1955; June 1965
box 1, folder 5
Jive Vol. 14, No. 9
September 1965
box 1, folder 6
SEPIA Vol. 21, No. 11
November 1972
box 1, folder 7
Spotlighter Anniversary Issue; Vol. 2, No. 10
December, January 1945-1946; June-July 1946
