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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Bill Pledger andWilliam Henry Heard |
| Founded | 1879 (1879) |
| Ceased publication | 1884 (1884) |
| Headquarters | Athens, Georgia |
| City | Athens, Georgia |
| Country | United States |
TheAthens Blade was a short-livedAfrican-Americanweekly newspaper published inAthens, Georgia.[1]: 177–182 Its early publishers wereBill Pledger andWilliam Henry Heard.[2]
TheAthens Blade was a short-lived newspaper. Only one year after it was founded, Pledger changed its name to theAtlanta Defiant and moved it to Atlanta. He brought the paper back to Athens two years later, but it lasted only a year or two more. Heard and his "radical pen" moved to South Carolina in 1883, and the following year theBlade disappeared from the scene.
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