Description
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.
Background
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.