# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlotta-bass
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:00:53.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlotta-bass"
name: "Charlotta Bass"
slug: "charlotta-bass"
description: "Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass was an American educator, newspaper publisher-editor, and civil rights activist. She also focused on various other issues such as housing rights, voting rights, and labor rights, as well as police brutality and harassment. Bass is believed to be the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United States; she published the California Eagle from 1912 until 1951. In 1952, Bass became the first African-American woman nominated for Vice President, as a candidate of the Progressive Party."
tagline: "American newspaper publisher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Charlotta_Bass%2C_Providence_(_)%2C_ca._1901-1910_(scl-mss064-0451~1)_retouched.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1874-02-14"
deathDate: "1969-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.900722666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلوتا باس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass"
    title: "Charlotta Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass"
    title: "Charlotta Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "شارلوتا بس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass"
    title: "Charlotta Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass"
    title: "Charlotta Bass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%B9%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "شارلٹا باس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotta_Bass"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5085787"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump