The ''Athens Blade'' was a short-lived African-American
weekly newspaper
A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...
published in
Athens, Georgia
Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the sta ...
.
Its early publishers were
W.A. Pledger and
W.H. Heard.
See also
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List of African-American newspapers in Georgia
References
External links
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Defunct newspapers published in Georgia (U.S. state)
Companies based in Athens, Georgia
Newspapers established in 1879
Publications disestablished in 1880
Defunct African-American newspapers
Defunct weekly newspapers
1879 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1880 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
African-American history of Georgia (U.S. state)
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