The Baltimore-based paper gained a national audience by editorializing against segregation in municipal and state government during the 1920s. Longtime editor Carl Murphy also provided valuable support to the NAACP’s landmark school integration cases during the 1950s. More than a century after its first publication, the Afro-American remains one of the most influential Black-owned newspapers in the country. For more information on the Afro-American, please visit the BMI’s Print Shop exhibition.