Freeman's Press

[3] Newcomb, alongside many others (including some African American journalists), established the underlying corporation in Austin, Texas, in July 1868.

[4] Among the topics addressed by the paper was the contemporary civil rights movement, the forty acres and a mule proposal, the uplifting of black civic and spiritual life (as opposed to Native Americans, which the paper wrote were "savages" as opposed to "civilized Christian men"[5]), and the 1868 Republican National Convention.

[6] It argued against the creation of secret organizations to combat white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan, and it denounced the racist idea that black people were staging a "Negro insurrection".

[3] Production costs were high for the paper, many of its journalists were not adequately paid,[4] and Keith asked subscribers to pay him directly—not the paper—due to fear of confiscation by postal workers.

[4] The Freeman's Press was succeeded by the Galveston Spectator in 1873, the first Texan paper owned and published by African Americans.