C. N. Love

Charles Norton Love (died 1946) was a pioneering newspaper publisher and civil rights activist in Houston, Texas.

Love became a leading civil rights activist and advocate for the African American community.

After it closed, He launched the Texas Freeman newspaper in Houston in 1893 and published its first issue with his wife Lilla.

The paper condemned discrimination, while advocating for equal pay, job opportunities, and against voting restrictions facing African Americans in Texas.

He survived to see the Democratic Party of Texas finally admit African Americans in the 1940s.