The Afro-American press and its editors . rd and the Executive Board of the Ameri-can Baptist Home Mission Society. He was engaged in thisonly twelve months before he was appointed president ofArkansas Baptist College. As the Convention Board hadalready decided to have a denominational organ in the school,(which would be an advantage to the paper and the schoolalike) this brought Mr. Booker in direct connection with thepaper, in the fall of 1887. He was at once made itsmanaging editor. This position he filled creditably, andwith profit to the paper, notwithstanding the overburden ofwork the yo
The Afro-American press and its editors . rd and the Executive Board of the Ameri-can Baptist Home Mission Society. He was engaged in thisonly twelve months before he was appointed president ofArkansas Baptist College. As the Convention Board hadalready decided to have a denominational organ in the school,(which would be an advantage to the paper and the schoolalike) this brought Mr. Booker in direct connection with thepaper, in the fall of 1887. He was at once made itsmanaging editor. This position he filled creditably, andwith profit to the paper, notwithstanding the overburden ofwork the young school necessitated, with its very small corpsof teachers. The paper was at first known as The Arkansas Baptist;but the white Baptists of the state presuming to name theirpaper The Arkansas Baptist, brought on a business collisionbetween the two, and in March, 1889, The Arkansas Baptist(colored) changed its name to Tlie Baptist this new title it continued to advance and flourish,gaining in popularity and material 261 262 TEE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. The Vanguard is issued bi-weekly, first as a general?religious journal, and then as a denominational organ; but,at the same time, it is a strong advocate of education, Christian,industrial, and general. Notwithstanding its religious char-acter, it does not scruple to discuss such political issues asare likely to enhance the welfare of its race or the generalprogress of the country. It has a large circulation, therebeing no other paper of its kind in the state to compete withit. It gives special attention to inquiries made for lostkinsfolk, separated from their families in slavery days. Itis the highest ambition of Rev. Joseph A. Booker to makeThe Vanguard one of the best papers in the South-west. Rev. Richard De Baptiste, Ex-Editor Conservator andCorresponding Editor Brooklyn Monitor. TJie Conservator, now published at Chicago, with as editor, began its existence the first of 1878. Itchanged hands ab
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