Since the publication of Freedom's Journal in 1827, Black owned and operated media outlets have provided a critical voice for Black Americans—and have been the focus of sustained white backlash. This chapter traces the long history of violence enacted against the Black Press and its buildings. I focus primarily on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century—a period described by scholars as the so-called “nadir” of American race relations. The roughly three-decade period between the end of the 1880s and the beginning of the 1920s, was characterized by the entrenchment of Jim Crow segregation, widespread anti-Black racism, and spiralling violence directed against Black communities and their institutions. These overlapping crises significantly curtailed Black social and political freedoms, but also catalysed the development of a “modern” Black Press. This contrast between a marked rise in the influence and readership of the Black Press, and the parallel growth of efforts to suppress its voice, resulted in some of the most high-profile and destructive attacks on Black Press buildings in American history.