Philip Alexander Bell

Philip Alexander Bell
Engraving published 1891
Born1808
New York City, U.S.
DiedApril 24, 1889 (aged 81)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationNewspaper editor
Years active1830–1889
Known forOpposition to slavery, support for black citizenship and suffrage in the United States
Notable workWeekly Advocate, Pacific Appeal, The Elevator
Political party
Republican
Other political
affiliations
Workingmen's (1878)

Philip Alexander Bell (1808 – April 24, 1889) was an American newspaper editor and abolitionist.

Biography

Born in New York City to an African American family, he was educated at the African Free School and became politically active at the 1832 Colored Convention. He began his newspaper career with William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and became an outspoken voice on a variety of social and political of issues of the day including abolition, suffrage, and the protection of fugitive slaves.

In 1837, he founded The Weekly Advocate newspaper, edited by Samuel Cornish. The paper was later renamed The Colored American and co-owned by Charles Bennett Ray. In 1860, he moved to San Francisco where he became co-editor of the African-American newspaper The Pacific Appeal, working alongside Peter Anderson. After the Civil War he founded and edited The San Francisco Elevator during the Reconstruction Era.

In politics Bell was a Republican, but in 1878 he was elected a delegate to an anti-Kearney convention of the Workingmen's Party of California. In 1880, the California State Senate elected him watchman of the gallery.

Bell died on April 24, 1889.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "P.A. Bell: Abolitionist". www.lincolnshrine.org. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  2. ↑ Perry, E.L.; Alexander, L. (2010). Encyclopedia of African American History. American Ethnic Experience. ABC-CLIO. p. 324. ISBN 978-1-85109-769-2. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ George William Gore, Negro Journalism: An Essay on the History and Present Conditions of the Negro Press, University Microfilms, 1922
  4. ↑ Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein, Early African American Print Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, Sep 6, 2012
  5. ↑ Jan Batiste Adkins, African Americans of San Francisco, Arcadia Publishing, 2012
  6. ↑ "REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE". Daily Alta California. San Francisco. 25 July 1876. Retrieved 26 October 2026.
  7. ↑ "ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE". Daily Alta California. San Francisco. 23 January 1879. Retrieved 26 October 2026.
  8. ↑ "THE WORKINGMEN". The Daily Examiner. San Francisco. 4 June 1878. Retrieved 26 October 2026.
  9. ↑ "THE WORKINGMEN". Santa Barbara Daily Press. Santa Barbara. 4 June 1878. Retrieved 26 October 2026.
  10. ↑ "CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE". Sacramento Daily Record-Union. Sacramento. 7 January 1880. Retrieved 26 October 2026.
  11. ↑ Beasley, Delilah (1919). The Negro Trail Blazers of California. Los Angeles. p. 252.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)