Iconic Black writers, like Langston Hughes and Ida B. Wells, were contributors to the periodical at that time. And The Pittsburgh Courier was the originator of the “Double V” campaign in 1942, that argued for the rights of Black Americans domestically during World War II. The goal was to achieve victory over discrimination at home while securing military victory abroad. In 1968, it was Ebony Magazine that published Pulitzer-Prize winning photos of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at Martin Luther King’s funeral, And in 1955, it was Jet Magazine that published photos of Emmett Till after he was brutally lynched by a mob of white men In Mississippi, sparking nationwide outrage and a launching pad for the Civil Rights Movement.
