"Colored American Magazine"May 19,1900"

This was one of the first monthly magazines created for the national African

American consumer.Published and circulated in Boston Magazine.and New York City until 1909,the Colored American Magazine did  for nine years in the 1900's what Ebony Magazine is doing today.The contents of the magazine took in all types of printed works pertaining to the "colored" American living in the States.Special articles also featured people of color living on other continents of the World.Some of the topics covered included articles of Negroes succeeding in business,the arts,education,medicine,politics etc.The magazine played significant role in recording current news as well as retrospective historical events of the Negro.The Colored American Magazine often referenced itself as "the only high-class illustrated monthly in the world devoted exclusively to the interest of the Negro Race."Their editors catered to the educated middle and upper class African Americans of the early 20th century.The CAM artices essays,poems,and countless photographs,depict a certain appearance of dignity belonging to a people proud to have made it" out of slavery.The nine CAM volumes in years provide revealing facts for both white & African Americans readers interested in African American history literature.