Carl J. Murphy

Carl J. Murphy (January 17, 1889 – February 25, 1967) was an African-American journalist, publisher, civil rights leader, and educator. He was publisher of the Afro-American newspaper chain of Baltimore, Maryland, expanding its coverage with regional editions in several major cities of the Washington, D.C., area, as well as Newark, New Jersey, a destination of thousands of rural blacks in the Great Migration to the North.

Murphy completed a doctorate in 1913 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) in Jena, Germany after earning bachelor's and master's degrees at Howard University and Harvard University universities, respectively. He became chairman of the German department at Howard University, before the United States entered World War I. In 1918, he started working at the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, founded by his father, which he led it for 45 years.

Early life, family, and education Carl Murphy was born on January 17, 1889, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were John Henry Murphy Sr. and Martha (Howard) Murphy.

Career Murphy served as a professor of German and chairman of the German department at Howard University between 1913 and 1918. The first female Bishop of the A.M.E. Church, Vashti Murphy McKenzie, is Murphy's granddaughter