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''Kansas City The Call'', or ''The Call'' is an African-American newspaper founded in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri by Chester A. Franklin. It continues to serve the black community of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. It is considered one of the top six African-American weeklies in the nation. Before 1827, when the African-American newspaper ''Freedom’s Journal'' was founded in New York City, there were no black-owned and operated newspapers. News of their community was not generally covered by white journalists, and the mainstream press expressed bias against blacks. This reduced communication both within and outside the communities. Black publications have struggled to survive, given difficulties in financing. With the majority of black population in the South until the 20th-century Great Migrations, Northern blacks were not served by Southern papers. ==Founder == Chester Arthur Franklin (1880–1955) founded ''The Call'' newspaper in May 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri. He owned and operated it until his death on May 7, 1955, establishing an office also in Kansas City, Kansas. Franklin was born in Texas on June 7, 1880, the only child of George F. Franklin, a barber, and Clara Belle (née Williams) Franklin, a teacher. Tired of racial segregation and disfranchisement of minorities in Texas, his family moved to Omaha, Nebraska and eventually to Denver, Colorado in search of opportunities. There Chester worked for his father, who owned local newspapers in both cities. Eventually Franklin took over Denver’s ''The Star'' for his father; he printed, edited, and distributed the paper until 1913. That year, Franklin decided to move to Kansas City, Missouri, having heard about its growing African-American population and vibrant music and culture. Franklin intended to start up a paper and gain a larger audience within Missouri and Kansas. He set up his own printing shop before organizing to publish his own newspaper. His mother had accompanied him and his family. Franklin launched ''The Call'' and sold copies for 5 cents; his mother helped by peddling subscriptions door to door.〔 Franklin taught himself how to use the Linotype machine, because white union workers were not allowed to assist blacks. He developed the newspaper, and ''The Call'' became one of the six largest African-American weeklies in the country, and one of the largest black-owned and operated businesses in the Midwest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.blackarchives.org/articles/history-kansas-city-call )〕 “During its first eight years, ''The Call'' grew steadily from a circulation of about 2,000 in 1919 to 16,737 in 1927, and then remained at that level until the late 1930s”. The newspaper employed (and still employs) many African Americans in the Kansas City community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Call (Kansas City)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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