A Successful Woman's Paper

A Successful Woman's Paper

Chicago Legal News Surviving the Great Fire of 1871 in Chicago

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In this edition of the New National Era, weekly newspaper owned by and published for African Americans, the newspaper mentions the success of Myra Bradwell's newspaper. The articles sights the success of the Chicago Legal News in the face of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and how Congress has endorsed the paper to print new legislation. This reporting exemplifies the mutual relationship some women’s rights advocates maintained with progression of African American rights.
Bradwell was part of the American Woman Suffrage Association which supported black suffrage. This article demonstrates that each activist group saw the success of one party to lead to the success of another.

Editors: Frederick Douglass, 1870-1872; Lewis H. Douglass, Richard T. Greener, John A. Cook, 1873; Lewis H. Douglass, 1873-1874.

Frederick Douglass Newspapers collection Library of Congress, reel number 00415620391: https://lccn.loc.gov/sn84026753

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September 12, 1872

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"A Successful Woman's Paper" bottom of column 6

Mrs. Myra Bradwell's paper, the Chicago Legal News, never lost a single issue - not even the one subsequent to the great fire. It is now twice its former size, and has about four solid pages of advertising, in agate. The priniting, under the "burnt record bill," is accorded to it the courts of the city. In her printing office, from fourteen to sixteen hands work, with power press, etc. Congress has given to this paper the publishing of the United States Law.

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