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OCLC 525858. (Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Alabama) Rhoda Coleman Ellison. History and Bibliography of Alabama Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1954. James Boylan (1963). "Birmingham: newspapers in a crisis". Columbia Journalism Review. 2.
The newspaper was founded in 1964 by Jesse Lewis Sr. in order to give the local Black community a greater voice during the civil rights struggle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Lewis wanted to provide an alternative to the News and Post-Herald , which only mentioned Black people in a negative light, and the Birmingham World , which Lewis felt only focused on ...
Appearance. Front page of the Birmingham Wide-Awake from January 1900. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Alabama. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in Alabama was The Nationalist, published in Mobile from 1865 to 1869. [ 1 ] Many more followed it, with some 100 ...
0165344 [5] Website. montgomeryal.gov. Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. [9] Named for Continental Army Major General Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 200,603 at the 2020 census. [6]
6 Fort Lashley Ave, Talladega, AL 35160. Website. dailyhome.com. The Daily Home is a daily newspaper serving the Talladega County and St. Clair County, Alabama areas. Originally begun as a weekly in 1867 it was called Our Mountain Home until daily production began in 1909 at which point the name was changed to The Talladega Daily Home.
The Birmingham News was launched on March 14, 1888, by Rufus N. Rhodes as The Evening News, a four-page paper with two reporters and $800 of operating capital.At the time, the city of Birmingham was only 17 years old, but was an already booming industrial city and a beacon of the "New South" still recovering from the aftermath of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
Circulation. 14,208 (as of 2018) [1] Website. tuscaloosanews.com. The Tuscaloosa News is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama. It is owned by Gannett. Tuscaloosa News headquarters seen from the Riverwalk. In 2012, Halifax Media Group acquired the Tuscaloosa News.
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