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List of African American newspapers in Arkansas. Front page of the Arkansas Freeman from 1869. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Arkansas. The first such newspaper in Arkansas was the Arkansas Freeman of Little Rock, which began publishing in 1869. [1]
This is a list of African American newspapers and media outlets, which is sortable by publication name, city, state, founding date, and extant vs. defunct status. For more detail on a given newspaper, see the linked entries below. See also by state, below on this page, for entries on African American newspapers in each state.
Josiah H. Shinn (1906), "Early Arkansas Newspapers", Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, Fayetteville, pp. 395–403 Allsopp, Frederick W. (1922). History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More (PDF) (Reprint ed.).
The Arkansas Gazette was a newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, that was published from 1819 to 1991. It was known as the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi River. It was located from 1908 until its closing at the now historic Gazette Building. For many years it was the newspaper of record for Little Rock and the State of Arkansas.
African American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African American periodical, Freedom's Journal, in 1827. During the Antebellum South, other African American newspapers sprang ...
The Arkansas State Press was an African-American newspaper published from 1941 to 1959. [4] [2] Dubbed " Little Rock's leading African-American newspaper," its owners and editors were Daisy Bates and L. C. Bates. According to historians, the newspaper was "believed by many to be instrumental in bringing about the desegregation of the Little ...
The Arkansas Freeman was the first African American newspaper in Arkansas. It was founded in 1869 and went defunct in 1870. The paper was opposed to the Radical Republican rule of Arkansas, and opposed the reality that black Arkansans mostly supported them. While its editor intended to reopen the paper in 1871, the paper was never published again.
Star-Gazette (1828, founded as Elmira Gazette, the first newspaper of the now massive Gannett conglomerate) The Providence Journal (1829) The Post-Standard (1829) The Philadelphia Inquirer (1829, founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer) The Stamford Advocate (1829, founded as The Stamford Intelligencer)