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John H. Murphy, Sr.

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This file appears in: The Afro-American Newspaper
John H. Murphy, Sr.

This file appears in: The Afro-American Newspaper

The Afro-American Newspaper

By Richard F. Messick
When John H. Murphy, Sr. purchased the Afro-American Newspaper in 1897, the idea of sending a poet to cover a civil war in Spain was probably far from his mind, especially a poet as distinguished as Langston Hughes. His paper, after all, had a…
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