Nov 1, 1945. Black publishing entrepreneur John H. Johnson launched Ebony on this date three years to the day after his first successfulAfrican-American lifestyle magazine, Negro Digest (1942). By 1946 Ebony had a circulation of more than 300,000 copies. On Nov 1, 1951, Johnson launched the equally successful publication Jet.

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