Carl J. Murphy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCarl J. Murphy
American journalist
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1889
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date of Death: 25-Feb-1967
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Carl J. Murphy
- Carl Murphy (January 17, 1889 – February 25, 1967) was an African-American journalist, publisher, civil rights leader, and educator.
- He was publisher of the Afro-American newspaper chain of Baltimore, Maryland, expanding its coverage with regional editions in several major cities of the Washington, DC area, as well as Newark, New Jersey, a destination of thousands of rural blacks in the Great Migration to the North. Murphy completed a doctorate in 1913 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) in Jena, Germany after earning bachelor's and master's degrees at Howard and Harvard universities, respectively.
- He became chairman of the German department at Howard University before the United States entered World War I.
- In 1918 he started working at the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, founded by his father.
- He led it for 45 years.
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