Alice E. McEwen

Alice Elizabeth McEwen (born July 29, 1870) was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, and teacher. She was one of the twenty-three black women working as journalists in the United States prior to 1891. She attended public schools in the city, and then went to Fisk University in 1881 and Roger Williams University in 1884. In 1885, her father sent her to Spelman Seminary. In 1885, McEwen published her first article, "The Progress of the Negro", in the Montgomery Herald. She continued writing for the Herald, The Spelman Messenger, and other newspapers until she graduated from Spelman on May 24, 1888.