African-American women working as a journalist in the United States prior to 1891.
Alice Elizabeth McEwen was born to the Reverend & Mrs.A.N. McEwen in Nashville,Tennessee.She attended public schools in the city,and then went to Fisk University in 1881 and Roger Williams University in 1884.In 1885,she published her first article,"The Progress of the Negro," in the Montgomery Herald.She continued writing for the Herald,The Spelman Messenger,and other newspapers until she graduated from Spelman on May 24,1888.Her valedictorian address,titled "The Advantage of Adversity," was published in several southern newspaper.
After graduating, Alice's daddy hired her as the assistant editor of The Baptist Leader,which he was editor.
Alice continued to publish.She read her paper "Women in Journalism" before the National Press Association in Washington,D.C.,and another paper at the Women's Baptist State Convention in Greenville,Alabama,both around 1890."Signs of the Times" appeared in The Freeman in 1891 and was reprinted in The Southern Watchman of Mobile,Alabama.
In addition to writing and editing,Alice worked as a teacher in Montgomery,Huntsville,and Talladega,Alabama.In September of 1892,she was elected and served as secretary of the Huntsville Normal School.She then worked as
the principal of a school run by the Odd Fellows in Moss Point,Mississippi.
After graduating, Alice's daddy hired her as the assistant editor of The Baptist Leader,which he was editor.
Alice continued to publish.She read her paper "Women in Journalism" before the National Press Association in Washington,D.C.,and another paper at the Women's Baptist State Convention in Greenville,Alabama,both around 1890."Signs of the Times" appeared in The Freeman in 1891 and was reprinted in The Southern Watchman of Mobile,Alabama.
In addition to writing and editing,Alice worked as a teacher in Montgomery,Huntsville,and Talladega,Alabama.In September of 1892,she was elected and served as secretary of the Huntsville Normal School.She then worked as
the principal of a school run by the Odd Fellows in Moss Point,Mississippi.
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