Existing comment:
1900
Leading a Movement:
Robert Sengstacke Abbott started his Chicago Defender in 1905. A decade later, the influential weekly was a leading voice in a campaign urging African Americans to abandon the racism and lynchings of the South and move North. In some Southern cities it was banned. Approximately 1 million African Americans relocated in the ensuing "Great Migration."
A Dash of Humor:
The first successful continually published comic strip was "Mutt and Jeff," an instant sensation in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1907. Early comics, or "funnies," were single-panel drawings, often in color. Black-and-white strips appeared in some large newspapers by the early 1900s. The success of "Mutt and Jeff" spawned numerous new strips.
1903... Daily Mirror, first modern tabloid, published in London... |