The Afro-American press and its editors . ucation in the Nashville public schools, and subsequentlyattended Fisk University, (1881) and, after the death of hermother, Roger Williams University, (1884.) She did not,however, finish the prescribed course here, as her father,knowing the care a motherless girl requires, and feeling thata ladies institute would best supply the need, sent her toSpelman Seminary, at Atlanta, Ga. This was in 1885, whichalso dates the preparation and publication of her first articlefor the press, which was printed in The Montgomery Herald,under the caption of The Progre
The Afro-American press and its editors . ucation in the Nashville public schools, and subsequentlyattended Fisk University, (1881) and, after the death of hermother, Roger Williams University, (1884.) She did not,however, finish the prescribed course here, as her father,knowing the care a motherless girl requires, and feeling thata ladies institute would best supply the need, sent her toSpelman Seminary, at Atlanta, Ga. This was in 1885, whichalso dates the preparation and publication of her first articlefor the press, which was printed in The Montgomery Herald,under the caption of The Progress of the Negro. During her school life at Spelman, she wrote variousarticles for the newspapers, until her graduation, May 24,1888, at the age of eighteen. She was then engaged asassociate editor to her father, Rev, A. N. McEwen, who waseditor of The Baptist Leader, a five-column, four-page journal,neatly printed, and presenting as attractive an appearance asthe average race journal. Miss McEwen is a journalist under the guidance of her. MISS ALICE E. MqEWEN, 397 398 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. father, and her fame is extending all over the land. She iswidely known by her having appeared before several nationalbodies to read some of her productions. She read a paperbefore the last National Press Convention, at Washington,D. C, upon Women in Journalism; also a paper before theWomens Baptist State Convention, at Greenville, Ala., thesame year. The paper before the Press Convention wasafterward published in The Leader. It is indeed a finepresentation of the subject, showing thought and carefulpreparation. She opens with a statement of the success whichhas attended the efforts of our women; then, in speaking ofthe field which this work offers to women, she says: There is no work which women can engage in that itsinfluence will be brought to bear upon the public more thanthis. It is here that their utterances will commend themselvesto the mind of the young. America has furnished her s
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