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[[image - 16 portrait photographs of the following, from left to right:
Carter Wesley
John H. Sengstacke
John H. Murphy, III
L. M. Quinn
Frank W. Mitchell, Sr. 
Thomas W. Young
Emory O. Jackson
Garth C. Reeves
Carlton B. Goodlett, M. D., Ph. D.
Frank P. Thomas
Frank L. Stanley
C. A. Scott
C. C. DeJoie, Jr.
Marjorie B. Porter
William O. Walker]]
[[caption]] CREDO OF THE NEGRO PRESS
The Negro Press believes that America can best lead the world away from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every man, regardless of race, color or creed, his human and legal rights.  Hating no man, fearing no man, the Negro Press strives to help every man in the firm belief that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back. [[/caption]]


National Newspaper
Publishers Association

in 1940 at Chicago upon the suggestion of John Sengstacke(Chicago Defender) Negro Publishers organized the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

The professional need was readily apparent, if Negro newspapers were to make a united thrust in their services to Democracy, advertisers and subscribers. 

During the past quarter of a century, NNPA has grown in size and effectiveness.

Long before the sit-ins and marches of the sixties - in the forties and fifties to be exact - NNPA was frequenting the White House, the U.S. Congress and other Government agencies in quest of full opportunity for all Americans. 

NNPA is responsible for the first Negro White House Correspondent, the first Negro War Correspondents, the first Negro reporters accredited to the Press galleries of the Congress, desegregation of the Veterans Administration, desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces and the first Negro officers in the U. S. Navy.

From Roosevelt to Johnson, NNPA has persistently promoted Presidential Advocacy of such Federal Civil Rights legislation as Anti-Lynch, Anti-Poll tax, FEPC, Open Housing and Desegregation of Public Accommodations.

From its position of crusading and forthright leadership to the Negro Press influenced general media to treat the Negro as a human being worthy of the highest type of news treatment rather than chattel to be relegated to segregated news columns adjacent to classified ads.

The "respected and believed" Negro Press, continually growing and improving in size, circulation and interpretive reporting, opened new and exclusive avenues for American Businesses, and Industries to penetrate America's vast, rich, and compact Negro market.

Then, and now more than ever, only Negro newspapers can create the aura of credibility and loyalty that advertisers need to support their sincere advertising messages directed to American Negroes.

The reason is easy to understand: The Negro newspaper is more possessively dear to American Negroes because it accurately reflects the Negro's changing world, his hopes and ambitions and his hard-won achievements in a highly competitive and complex society.

Frank L. Stanley,
President, NNPA

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