New National Era
New National Era, originally the New Era and partly near the end as New National Era and Citizen, was a national newspaper for African Americans published in Washington D.C. during the Reconstruction Era in the decade after the American Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation. Frederick Douglass took over the New Era in 1870 and renamed it New National Era. The New York Heritage Digital Collections has issues of the paper from 1870 until 1874. The Library of Congress also has issues in its collection. The papers editors were Frederick Douglass, his son Lewis H. Douglass, as well as Richard T. Greener, and John A. Cook.
It covered Reconstruction, Republican politics, and Black Washington D.C. It was described as a "well conducted" newspaper aimed at addressing the issues of the black community in D.C.
Thomas W. Cardozo contributed accounts of his experiences in government in Reconstruction era Mississippi.
