"Most of my role models were at black newspapers," he said.

The newspaper was one of two black newspapers published in Florida at the time.

More than 1500 white men participated in an attack on the black newspaper, burning down the building.

Within two decades it had become "Britain's most successful black newspaper".

It is now ranked among the top Black newspapers nationwide.

Ms. Scott said the total circulation of all black newspaper is more than five million.

By 1945 it was the only black newspaper remaining in Omaha, the state's largest city.

The case was broadly publicized in both white and black newspapers.

As a consequence, the paper is one of the most frequently quoted black newspapers in the world.

Indianapolis printed the nation's first illustrated black newspaper in 1888.