Pacific Appeal

Pacific Appeal was an African-American newspaper based in San Francisco and published from April 1862 to June 1880.

[1][2][3][4] Pacific Appeal was co-founded by Philip Alexander Bell, an African-American civil rights and antislavery activist who had established Weekly Advocate (edited by Samuel Cornish) and worked for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator,[4] and Peter Anderson, a San Francisco civil rights activist and delegate at the California Colored Citizens Convention.

[6]: 91  Its contemporaries at the time included the Anglo-African, and it was regarded as the official organ of African-Americans on the Pacific slope.

[6]: 91 The paper’s motto was “He who would be free, himself must strike the blow.”[6]: 92 [3] It began publishing in April 1862.

[3] The coverage of antislavery and civil rights issues in the first few years has been covered by historians and chroniclers of black abolitionism of the era, including in The Afro-American Press and Its Editors.