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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: We now belong to ourselves
    sub title: J.L. Edmonds, the Black press, and Black citizenship in America
  name:
    name part: Edmonds, Arianne.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 156 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find opportunities to advance and prosper in American society. Among the vanguard of the Black press was Jefferson Lewis Edmonds, founder and editor of The Liberator newspaper. He was born into slavery in Mississippi, but, as a liberated adult, moved to Los Angeles and became a civil rights advocate, farmer and journalist. We Now Belong to Ourselves chronicles how Edmonds and other pioneering Black publishers documented the shifting tides in the advancement of Black liberation. Written by Edmonds' great-great granddaughter, the book argues that the Black press was central in transforming Black Americans' communication patterns, constructing national resistance networks and defining Black citizenship after Reconstruction, a vision, mission and spirit that persists today through Black online social movements.
  table of contents: Finding Jefferson -- Forging a pathway for liberation -- No longer will others speak for us -- Jefferson in Los Angeles -- Building, reflecting, and future casting -- The harvest : The psychological shift of the Black community -- What I learned -- Jefferson's legacy -- The year 1913.
  note: Arianne Edmonds.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Edmonds, J. L. (Jefferson Lewis)
      name part: 1852-1914
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American newspaper editors
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American civil rights workers
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Newspaper editors
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights workers
    geographic: California
    geographic: Los Angeles
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Freed persons
    geographic: Mississippi
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Liberator (Los Angeles, Calif. : 1900)
  classification: F869.L853 E464 2025
  classification: 979.4/94004960730922
  identifier: 9780197579084
  identifier: 0197579086
  record info:
    record content source: TOH
    record creation date: 250326
    record change date: 20251008194607.9
    record identifier: in00005648653