"The Appeal"(June 6,1885)

Originally named the Western Appeal,this newspaper was founded by Samuel Hardy& John T.Burgett,two African American businessmen who saw the need for a journal that would defend the interests of the African American race
while highlighting achievements.
The Appeal went through financial times early on and was sold to J.K.Hilyard & Thomas Lyles in 1886.They recruited John Quincy Adams,an African American journalist from Louisville,who eventually became managing editor.
Under John's editorship,the Appeal became one of the leading African American newspapers in the nation.At its high point in the 1880s,it was published in Dallas,Washington,D.C.,St.Louis,Louisville,& Chicago.By December 1888,the Chicago Appeal,under the editorship Cyrus F.Adams (John's brother),became the most-read African American newspaper in that city.The hey-day of  The Appeal would decline by 1901,and in 1923 it merged with the Northwestern Bulletin.