Philip Alexander Bell
Born	1808 New York City
Died	1889 (aged 80–81) San Francisco
Nationality	American
Occupation	Newspaper editor
Years active	1830-1889
Known for	Opposition to slavery, support for black citizenship and suffrage in the United States
Notable work	Weekly Advocate, Pacific Appeal, The Elevator

Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889) was a 19th-century American newspaper editor andabolitionist. Born in New York City, he was educated at theAfrican Free School^[1] and became politically active at the 1832Colored Convention. He began his newspaper career with forWilliam Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaperThe Liberator^[1] and became an outspoken voice on a variety of social and political of issues of the day includingabolition,suffrage, and the protection offugitive slaves.

In 1837, he foundedThe Weekly Advocate newspaper, edited bySamuel Cornish. The paper was later renamedTheColored American and co-owned byCharles Bennett Ray. In 1860, he moved toSan Francisco where he became co-editor of theAfrican-American newspaperThe Pacific Appeal. After theCivil War he founded and editedThe San Francisco Elevator during theReconstruction Era.^[2][3][4][5]

Bell died on April 24, 1889.^[6]

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