The Pittsburgh Courier, founded in 1907 by Edwin Nathaniel Harleston, was a pioneering publication that specialized in anti-racism messages and had a significant impact on the fight for civil rights, even after its bankruptcy in 1966 when it was relaunched by Chicago Defender publisher John H. H. Sengstacke as the New Pittsburgh Courier.

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