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Based in Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church first published The Christian Recorder, its newspaper, in 1843. Fannie Jackson Coppin began to write for the paper as early as 1870 and contributed a women's column that began in 1878. In the early 1900s, the A.M. E. Book Concern was a national supplier of books by African American authors, including works by W. E. B. DuBois.
