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Associated Negro Press was founded in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois by Claude Barnett. The Associated Negro Press was a national, international and Pan-African News service. The (ANP) had correspondents, writers, reporters in all major centers of the black population in the United States of America. It supplied news stories, opinions, columns, feature essays, book and movie reviews, critical and comprehensive coverage of events, personalities, and institutions relevant to black Americans. As the ANP grew into a global network. It supplied the vast majority of black newspapers with twice weekly packets. Around 1945 the ANP grew into a global network with outlets in Africa, London. In the late 1950s about 75 African papers subscribed to its services. The news packets were in French and in English.

In the summer of 1964 the ANP went out of business. It went out of business due to several factors as documented by Gerald Horne, in his book titled "The Rise & Fall of the Associated Negro Press. As integration took hold Barnett no longer had a captive African American market in the news gathering business. Mainstream media started to hire African American writers and journalist; and to report on Jim Crow issues.

When the (ANP) closed it had a membership of 75 American Negro newspapers, 200 African newspapers, two radio stations and two magazines.

Historical influence
Claude Barnett started the Associated Negro Press in 1919 in Chicago. It was a service that provided news outlets with news. By 1950 the ANP serviced 200 newspapers across the United States of America and globally. It was the first international news agency for Black newspapers. It supplied news stories relevant to the African American, African, and the African Diaspora communities. The ANP had journalists and writers in Europe and Africa. The (ANP) was "the most ambitious black press institution in the country before Johnson Publishing and more extensive", according to Gerald Horne in his book the Rise & Fall of the Associated Negro Press. The ANP documented African American experiences in the United States of America and abroad from the 1920s to 1960s

During the 'Black Chicago Renaissance', the ANP was an outlet for African American writers. The ANP was a bridge between the black masses and the black intellectuals.

The (ANP) globalized the African American Civil Rights struggle. The Chicago based (ANP) fought racism in America and abroad. It had African correspondents in Kenya, Tanganyika, Southern Rhodesia, Congo, Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. The ANP clipped about 100 items from African newspapers for news packets.

The (ANP) was a very significant institution for almost five decades. It is credited with increasing readership and interest in national and international news.

It reported on international relations.

Noted Writers, Reporters, Correspondents
Many well known writers and authors contributed articles to the Associated Negro Press. The ANP's Chicago office had a staff of six employees, and 72 correspondents in strategic locations for gathering news stories and reports. They also did news packet mailings.
 * Alice Dunnigan wrote for the ANP. She was the first African-American female correspondent to get White House credentials, and the first to a member of the Senate and House of Representatives press gallery. In 1947 she was the head of the Associated Negro Press in the Washington Bureau. She held this post for 14 years servicing 112 African-American newspapers across the country. In 2018 a six-foot bronze statue was created to honor Dunnigan. She went from working with the American Negro Press to working full-time for Lyndon B. Johnson. She worked on his campaign for the Democratic nomination. She continued to work for Lyndon B. Johnson when he was vice president and with the Johnson Administration when he became president. She was also information specialist for the Department of Labor for 1966 and 1967.
 * Faye Jackson was hired by the Association of Negro Publishers (ANP). She was initially (ANP)'s Hollywood correspondent. She focussed on African American movie stars. Ms Jackson also wrote about non-African American movie starts in Hollywood. In 1937, she was sent to London, England to represent (ANP) to attend and cover events around the coronation of King George VI. She interviewed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, singer Josephine Baker, and writer H.G. Wells, while in Europe.
 * Nancy Cunard was a British poet, journalist, activist who wrote for the Associated Negro Press. She was a regular Associated Negro Press correspondent reporting on events in Western Europe.
 * Thyra Edwards, as a correspondent she traveled to Europe, Mexico, and the Soviet Union.
 * Langston Hughes a contributing columnist.
 * Richard Wright held an Associated Negro press card
 * Zora Neale Hurston - cultural trends in Harlem
 * Frank Marshall Davis - worked for the (ANP) as an editor for 13 years.
 * Alice Dunbar Nelson a contributor to (ANP)
 * Es'kia Mphahlele South African Writer for (ANP)
 * Mary Church Terrell
 * Rudolph Dunbar was an ANP correspondent in London.
 * Vernon Jordan a correspondent and with the National Urban League
 * Roy Wilkins with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP
 * Merze Tate offered her service to write for the (ANP)
 * James Weldon Johnson the President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a contributing editor.
 * Nahum Daniel Brascher, a Cleveland, Ohio journalist who had worked for President Warren G. Harding