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UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7785c92j Author Shott, Brian H. Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ MEDIATING AMERICA: BLACK AND IRISH PRESS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CITIZENSHIP, 1870-1914 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in HISTORY by Brian H. Shott December 2015 The Dissertation of Brian H. Shott is approved: __________________________________ Professor David Brundage, chair __________________________________ Professor Catherine Jones __________________________________ Professor Matthew O’Hara __________________________________ Professor Martin Berger __________________________________ Tyrus Miller Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Copyright © by Brian H. Shott 2015 Table of Contents List of Figures ......................................................................................................... iv Abstract .................................................................................................................. vii Introduction: Battling for Belonging When Print Was King.................................... 1 Chapter 1. Father Peter Yorke: A Publisher-Priest in the Fault Lines of American Identity .................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2. Forty Acres and a Carabao: T. Thomas Fortune’s Journey to Hawaii and the Philippines, 1902-03 ....................................................................... 65 Chapter 3. White Space: Illustrations, Ads, and Photographs in Late Nineteenth Century Print Media ............................................................................ 117 Chapter 4. J. Samuel Stemons’s One-Man Press: The Act of Newspapering in Black Philadelphia, 1906-07.............................................................................. 176 Chapter 5. Patrick Ford and the Writing of Irish America .................................. 215 Conclusion: Wired for Connection—and Conflict............................................... 256 Bibliography ........................................................................................................ 263 iii List of Figures 1. The Rev. Peter C. Yorke 18 2. Front page of the Leader 37 3. Program, California Chinese Exclusion Convention 56 4. T. Thomas Fortune in Luzon, Philippines 66 5. “Specimens of Afro-American Statesmen” (Moses L. Tucker, artist) 80 6. T. Thomas Fortune’s poem, “The Kanaka Maiden” 98 7. “A Typical Filipino Cart,” by T. Thomas Fortune 101 8. T. Thomas Fortune with Capt. Woods and Capt. Wormsley 110 9. “Parental Authority,” advertising card 123 10. Reverse side, “Parental Authority” 124 11. “Pat’s Prevention,” advertising card 125 12. Reverse side, “Pat’s Prevention” 125 13. “A New Vehicle,” advertising card 126 14. Reverse side, “A New Vehicle” 126 15. “Bound for Donnybrook Fair,” advertising card 127 16. Reverse side, “Bound for Donnybrook Fair” 127 17. Advertising card, R. W. Bell Manufacturing 128 18. Reverse side, R. W. Bell Manufacturing 128 19. “Schultz’s Irish Soap” advertising card 129 20. Reverse side, “Schultz’s Irish Soap” 129 21. “Pipe of Peace” postcard 130 iv 22. Royal Bengals “Heroes of History” trading cards 131 23. Reverse sides, “Heroes of History” 131 24. Irish World illustration, “Like Our Minute Men of ‘76” 134 25. Irish World illustration of Paul Kruger 134 26. “Can the Leopard Change Its Spots?” (Hoffman, artist) 137 27. “Is This the American Idea?” (Hoffman, artist) 138 28. “A Father’s Blessing” (Hoffman, artist) 139 29. “In the Land of the Free, etc.” (Hoffman, artist) 140 30. “Just Like White People” (Moses L. Tucker, artist) 143 31. “Uncle Sam and the Negro” (Moses L. Tucker, artist) 144 32. Mastheads of the Colored American and the Freeman 148 33. Freeman front page, Aug. 30, 1893 149 34. Freeman front page, Oct. 21, 1893 150 35. Freeman front page, Nov. 11, 1893 151 36. “Humorous Artists of America,” Strand magazine 155 37. “The Coon’s Content,” Strand magazine 157 38. “The Bicycle Race at the Coonville Wheel Club,” Strand magazine 159 39. “Native Insurgent Soldiers,” Freeman 160 40. “Native Insurgent Soldiers,” Salt Lake Herald 161 41. Lt. David J. Gilmer, Colored American newspaper 164 42. “School Begins” (Louis Dalrymple, artist) 169 43. “Uncle Sam’s New Class in the Art of Self-Government,” Harper’s Weekly 172 v 44. “The Filipino’s Bugaboo,” Judge 173 45. “Our New Topsy,” Judge 174 46. James Samuel Stemons 184 47. Google Ngram Viewer, “the negro problem” 195 48. Stemons’s trolly-car street indicator patent 209 49. Patrick Ford 219 50. Front page, Irish World 223 51. Masthead, Richmond Planet 257 vi ABSTRACT: Brian H. Shott, “Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914” This study explores the lives of four African American and Irish American editors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—Father Peter C. Yorke, T. Thomas Fortune, J. Samuel Stemons, and Patrick Ford—and how they understood and advocated for group interests through their newspaper presses. Unlike other studies of the black and ethnic press, I ask how the medium itself—through illustrations, cartoons, and halftone photographs; as a site of labor and profit; via advertisements and page layout; and by way of its evolving conventions and technology—shaped and constrained editors’ roles in debates over race and citizenship during a tumultuous time of social unrest and imperial expansion. Important scholarship has explored how newspapers helped disparate individuals imagine themselves as members of nation-states; less attention has been paid to newspapers’ role in expanding or, conversely, policing, notions of citizenship within the nation. Yorke, Fortune, Stemons, Ford, and other black and Irish journalists fought fiercely for inclusion within citizenship's contested boundaries. In the years following most major studies of these presses, scholars have produced a wealth of work on the fluidity and complexity of race. Historians of religion, furthermore, now argue that religious belief contributed markedly to contested American identities. U.S. imperial expansion in this time complicated American belonging, as new territories in the Caribbean and Pacific produced new vii notions of race and citizenship. All editors in this study were acutely aware of these shifting grounds and their stakes, even as they were pulled in conflicting directions by their presses. Ford’s struggle to calibrate Irish nationalism, Catholicism, and labor rights within the columns of the Irish World; Yorke’s clash with big business and his own Catholic hierarchy while at the helm of the Monitor and the Leader; Stemons’s Philadelphia struggle to found a newspaper and address the “Negro Problem”; and T. Thomas Fortune’s investigative journey to Hawaii and the Philippines in 1902-03 help tease out newspapers’ role in the creation of racial, ethnic, and national identities in the long nineteenth century. viii Introduction: Battling for Belonging When Print Was King Saturday was publication day aboard the British convict ship Hougoumont. Cutting through the waves on a 14,000-mile journey from England to Australia in 1867, the three-masted vessel held 280 prisoners. Among them were sixty-two Fenians—a secret society of Irish nationalists dedicated to the violent overthrow of British rule in Ireland—who each week eagerly awaited the next issue of The Wild Goose, a hand-written and decorated newspaper produced on-board by several of their group. The Irishmen typically read the paper aloud to each other. “Amid the dim glare of the lamp, the men at night would group strangely on extemporized seats,” wrote John Boyle O’Reilly, assistant editor of the journal. “The yellow light fell down on the dark forms, throwing a ghastly glare on the pale faces of the men…”1 O’Reilly would later escape from Australia and travel to Boston, where until his death in 1890 he edited the Pilot, one of the most important Irish American newspapers of the nineteenth century. The zeal with which a group of captive sailors labored to produce a tiny, on- board journal may seem strange today, when media forms include radio, television, and the near-instantaneous communication of Internet and wireless devices. Some scholars refer to the time between the creation of the printing press in the fifteenth century and the dawn of television in the 1940s as the “era of the printed word”; in the nineteenth century in particular, rising literacy rates and new printing technologies produced an explosion of reading material.2 The printing of periodicals, handbills, and 1 Walter McGrath, “Convict Ship Newspaper, The Wild Goose, Rediscovered,” Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 74 (1969): 20-31. 2 See, for example, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962). Most media scholars today find McLuhan too technologically deterministic; Marshall T. Poe’s thesis, following Harold Innis’s work, that new technologies are “pulled” into existence 1 other materials was a common occupation in the 1800s, and many well-known figures from American history began their writing lives at newspapers, as printer’s devils, reporters,
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