Jennie Carter - A Black Journalist of the Early West

In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself “Ann J. Trask” and later “Semper Fidelis”. Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881). Recovering Carter's work from obscurity, this volume represents one of the most exciting bodies of extant work by an African American journalist before the twentieth century.