English: Photo of the Wonder Bar in Atlantic City from a 1940 issue of the Baltimore Afro American.
A renewal search was done in periodicals for the years 1967 and 1968. There were no listings for the title The Afro American; there's no evidence of copyright for the newspaper.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.