The Negro Press Association was founded at Calvary Baptist Church Church in Louisville, Kentucky in June 1907. A group of African American journalists gathered in the church and created the organization to solidify the black vote in Kentucky. Noah Magowan was the president along with John Edmund of the Torch Light paper in Danville, Kentucky as vice president. For secretary was Julia S. Young from Louisville, Kentucky and Edward E. Underwood from Frankfort, Kentucky, editor of the Blue Grass Bulge, was treasurer. The executive board included William Steward, the first African American mailman in Louisville, Kentucky and founder of the American Baptist newspaper along with Robert Berry, the editor and publisher of the Kentucky Reporter. Along with the board was brother of Robert Berry, George Berry, the co-founder of the Kentucky Reporter and Reverend S.L.M. Francis. There is no exact date of how long the association existed however, in 1915, the Kentucky Negro Press Association was formed.