Charlotta Bass was born on Valentine's Day in 1874, and she was number six of eleven children in her family. Charlotta stood up for African-Americans and, helped them on their transition to the west, and gave them housing and job information in her newspaper. She was an African-American that took over the first African-American newspaper written in South Carolina. Charlotta Bass used this newspaper to assist new transitioning blacks to adjust to their new every day life. In the early 1800s to the 1900s, segregation of blacks was very depressing. Charlotta Bass republished the first African-American newspaper that supported blacks for everything that they needed to know, to make money to survive on, and for some it was to support their family.…show more content… She relocated to California in 1910 for health reasons. Charlotta took over the California eagle upon the death of the papers founder, John James Neimore, in 1912 and served as it's publisher until 1952. Charlotta's full name was Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass. She was a journalist, and activist, and she championed African American freedom and equality in the California eagle. She died on April 12, 1969.
Charlotta bass took over the California eagle because she believed it was her responsibility to take it over after Neimores death in 1912. "The Eagles publisher, J.J. Neimore, took ill and asked Bass to take over the operation of the paper upon his death" bass then took over the newspaper and changed the name from the California Owl to the California Eagle.
Charlotta Bass owned and operated a newspaper, The California Eagle. She was a feminist and civil rights activist. Bass took it upon herself to take over The California Eagle after her husband, Joseph Blackburn Bass, who was an editor for John Neimore, before Neimores death in 1912. Charlotta married Joseph Bass in 1914. John Neimore, who also was an African American, owned and operated the newspaper from 1879-1912, it was then known then as The California
