 Fremont Older became editor of the "San Francisco Bulletin" in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad and along with fellow Californian Lincoln Steffens, became a well-known muckraker and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney Charles Fickert of the framing of labor radical Thomas Mooney.The oldest African-American newspaper, still active in the 1930s, was the "California Eagle".It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879.