Photograph of the former Murray Brothers Printing Press at 918-922 U Street NW, 2020
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism: Murray Brothers and the Black Press
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism: Murray Brothers and the Black Press
Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism: Murray Brothers and the Black Press
Printing companies were an essential tool for independent Black newspapers, and these papers were a primary means for civil rights leaders to amplify the messages of organizations they led. F.H.M. Murray, whose sons ran the presses, worked closely…