The Washington Afro-American

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The Washington Afro American
The Washington Afro-American Newspaper Office Building, former site of The Washington Afro American newsroom, located in the Logan Circle neighborhood (2009)
Type	Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)	John H. Murphy, Sr.
Publisher	Frances Draper
President	Benjamin M. Phillips
Editor	Micha Green, Washington D.C. Editor
Founded	August 13, 1892; 132 years ago (August 13, 1892)
Language	English
Headquarters	1531 S. Edgewood St. Suite B, Baltimore, MD 21227 U.S.
Circulation	25,000 (as of 2019)^[1]
ISSN	0276-6523
Website	www.afro.com
Free online archives	Google News Archive

The Washington Afro-American newspaper is the Washington, D.C., edition of The Afro-American Newspaper.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1892 by Civil War veteran Sgt. John H. Murphy, Sr. Murphy merged his church publication, The Sunday School Helper, with two other church publications, The Ledger and The Afro-American, and the publication rose to prominence under the control of his tenth-born child, Carl J. G. Murphy, who served as its editor for 45 years. There have been as many as 13 editions of the newspaper in major cities across the country; today, there are just two: one in Baltimore, the other in Washington, D.C.^[2]

Call numbers

Because of its varied titles over the years, The Washington Afro-American has received numerous different call numbers from the Library of Congress and OCLC:

The Afro-American (1936–1937):
- LCCN sn96095001
- OCLC 34404244
Washington Afro American (1937–1964):
- LCCN sn87062261
- OCLC 16156417
Washington Afro-American (1930s–1964):
- ISSN 0043-0447
- LCCN sn84025928
- OCLC 2269349
Washington Afro-American and The Washington Tribune (1964–1984):
- LCCN sn81003305, sn87062260
- OCLC 7383870, 16156425
The Afro-American (1988):
- LCCN sn92057030
- OCLC 17795690
Washington Afro-American and Washington Tribune (1984–2015):
- ISSN 0276-6523
- LCCN sn92003332
- OCLC 26136335

References

^ "District of Columbia Newspaper Circulation" (PDF). ANR. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
^ "Mining the "Afro-American" Archives". Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University. Summer 2008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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Washington Afro American and the Washington Tribune print edition
The Afro American Newspapers online edition

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