''Negro World'', also known as the ''Weekly Negro World'', was an African American newspaper published in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1887.
It was published by Patterson, Elms & Co. During a two-week period it was issued daily as an advertising medium.
Irvine Garland Penn
Irvine Garland Penn (October 7, 1867 – July 22, 1930) was an educator, journalist, and lay leader in the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States. He was the author of ''The Afro-American Press and Its Editors'', published in 1891, and a ...
was a correspondent for the paper.
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List of African-American newspapers in Tennessee
This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in Tennessee. It includes both current and historical newspapers.
More than 100 such papers have been published in Tennessee. The first was '' The Colored Tennessean'', fi ...
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Defunct newspapers published in Tennessee
Defunct African-American newspapers
1887 establishments in Tennessee
African Americans in Tennessee
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