The Afro-American press and its editors . hese extracts prove the editorial ability of The NewSouth. Its managing editor, with but little previous journal-istic training, is a good writer. Peof. E, H. Lipscombe, Ex-Editor Mountain Gleaner. This cultured gentleman and well-known writer was bornin the famous tobacco town, Durham, N. C, September 29,1858. His editorial career began wMle he was a student atShaw University, of which he is a graduate. He becameassociated with Dr. H. M. Tupper (president of that institu-tion) and Prof. N. F. Roberts, in the publication of TheAfrican Expositor, which
The Afro-American press and its editors . hese extracts prove the editorial ability of The NewSouth. Its managing editor, with but little previous journal-istic training, is a good writer. Peof. E, H. Lipscombe, Ex-Editor Mountain Gleaner. This cultured gentleman and well-known writer was bornin the famous tobacco town, Durham, N. C, September 29,1858. His editorial career began wMle he was a student atShaw University, of which he is a graduate. He becameassociated with Dr. H. M. Tupper (president of that institu-tion) and Prof. N. F. Roberts, in the publication of TheAfrican Expositor, which was then the organ of the NorthCarolina Baptists, as well as that of the University. Though the junior member of the staff, he is accreditedwith having been the most classic writer upon The secret of his success with the paper was due to the factthat all of his articles upon religion, education, temperance,and, occasionally, politics, were prepared with the utmostcare and study, and were said to be of a nervous, concise and. PROF. E. H. LIPSCOMBE. 211 212 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. lucid style, which fact always insured him many admiringreaders. Those of The Expositor always wanted to see whatLipscombe had to say; this being especially true of theyounger class of men, who admired him for the fearless, fierydash, the convincing logic and the captivating rhetoric of hiswritings. His contributions to The Expositor were certainlyof that nature that furthered its prospects for a successfulexistence. At one time he had special charge of the temper-ance department, and being a hearty worker for prohibition,he threw many hot shots into the camp of the anti-prohibi-tionists. In 1882, he was elected by the North Carolina BaptistState Convention as one of the editors of The Baptist Stan-dard. In company with other gentlemen he established TheLight House, in 1884, being its editor-in-chief. In 1885,the paper was moved to Asheville, when it became TheMountain Gleaner, he still r
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