Athens Blade

*The Athens Blade*
The Arm of Justice Cannot—Will Not Sleep
Founder(s)	Bill Pledger and William Henry Heard
Founded	1879
Ceased publication	1884
Headquarters	Athens, Georgia
City	Athens, Georgia
Country	United States
	Media of the United States; List of newspapers;

The Athens Blade was a short-lived African-American weekly newspaper published in Athens, Georgia.^[1]^{: 177–182} Its early publishers were Bill Pledger and William Henry Heard.^[2]

References

^ Thurmond, Michael L.; Sparer, Dorothy (1978). A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History, Clarke County School District. OL 21912464M. The Athens Blade was a short-lived newspaper. Only one year after it was founded, Pledger changed its name to the Atlanta Defiant and moved it to Atlanta. He brought the paper back to Athens two years later, but it lasted only a year or two more. Heard and his "radical pen" moved to South Carolina in 1883, and the following year the Blade disappeared from the scene.
^ "Athens blade" – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

External links

"Athens blade". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
"Athens Blade, Vol.1, No. 21 - Digital Library of Georgia". dlg.usg.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2021.

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[1] Thurmond, Michael L.; Sparer, Dorothy (1978). A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History, Clarke County School District. OL 21912464M. The Athens Blade was a short-lived newspaper. Only one year after it was founded, Pledger changed its name to the Atlanta Defiant and moved it to Atlanta. He brought the paper back to Athens two years later, but it lasted only a year or two more. Heard and his "radical pen" moved to South Carolina in 1883, and the following year the Blade disappeared from the scene.

[lib-2] "Athens blade" – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

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