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Edward Elder Cooper

Edward Elder Cooper was a prominent early black publisher in the United States. He was born into slavery in Duval County, Florida on 10. June 1859, and died at the age of 49 on 9 July 1908.[1]

Cooper was the publisher of the Indianapolis Freeman, starting in July 1888, then sold it in 1892.[2]

Cooper then launched The Colored American in Washington, D.C. starting in 1893.[3] Cooper allied the newspaper with Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, and generally with the Republican Party. The newspaper fell into debt and shut down in 1904.[4]

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