List of African American newspapers in Iowa
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This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Iowa.
The first African American newspaper in Iowa was the Colored Advance of Corning, Iowa, founded in 1882.[1] It was followed the next year by the Des Moines Rising Son.[1] By far the longest-lasting, however, was the Iowa Bystander, which spanned more than a century.
During the peak period of African American newspaper founding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the African American population in Iowa was less than 20,000.[2] As a result, the number of such papers established in Iowa is much lower than in some neighboring states such as Illinois.
A hotspot of African American newspaper publishing in the early 20th century was Buxton, a coal-mining town that no longer exists. Around eight African American newspapers were published there in the first decades of the 20th century.[3]
Newspapers
[edit]City | Title | Beginning | End | Frequency | Call numbers | Remarks
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Buxton | Buxton Advocate | 1911[4] | 1912[4] | Weekly[4] | ||
Buxton | Buxton Breeze | ?[4] | ?[4] | |||
Buxton | Buxton Bulletin | 1914[5] | 1916[5] | |||
Buxton | Iowa Colored Worker | 1907[6] | 1910[6]` | |||
Buxton | The Buxton Eagle | 1903[7] | 1905[7] | Weekly[7] | ||
Buxton | Buxton Gazette | 1903[8] | 1909[8] | Weekly[8] |
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Buxton | Buxton Leader | 1912[4] | 1913[4] | Weekly[4] | ||
Buxton | The Vindicator | 1908[5] | ?[5] | |||
Corning | Colored Advance | 1882[9] | ?[9] | Twice monthly[9] |
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Davenport | Cash Register | 1980s[10] | Weekly[10] |
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Davenport | Tri-City Advocate | 1907[11] | ? | |||
Davenport | Tri-City Observer | 1940[11] | ? | |||
Des Moines | Weekly Advocate | 1891[11] | 1894[11] | Weekly | ||
Des Moines | Iowa Afro-Citizen | 1976[12] | 1977[12] | Weekly[12] | ||
Des Moines | Afro Des Moines Communicator | 1978[13] | 1978?[13] | |||
Des Moines | The Weekly Avalanche | 1891[14] | 1895[14] or 1894[15] | Weekly[14] |
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Des Moines | Iowa Baptist Standard | 1897[16] | 1899[16] | Weekly[16] | ||
Des Moines | Black Des Moines | 1972[12] | 1972?[13] | |||
Des Moines | Black Revolutionary | 1971[11] | ? | |||
Des Moines | The Iowa Bystander / Iowa State Bystander / Bystander | 1894[17] | 2015 | Weekly[17] |
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Des Moines | Inner City Challenger / Challenger | 1981[13] | 1984[13] | Monthly newspaper[13] | ||
Des Moines and Buxton | Iowa Colored Woman | 1907[4] | 1909[4] or 1910[5] | Monthly[4] | ||
Des Moines | The Communicator: Iowa’s Leading Multicultural Newspaper | 1985[19] or 1986[20] | 2018? | Biweekly[20] or bimonthly[10] |
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Des Moines | Monitor | 1910[4] | ||||
Des Moines | Iowa Observer | 1936[11] or 1939[22] | 1949[21] | |||
Des Moines | Des Moines Register and Leader | 1908[11] | 1915[11] | |||
Des Moines | Rising Son | 1883[1] | 1885[1] | Weekly[1] |
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Des Moines | Iowa Sepia News | 1951[24] | 1952[23] or 1954[11] | |||
Des Moines | They Say | 1936[22] | Weekly[22] |
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Des Moines | Western Ledger | 1908[11] | 1909[11] | Monthly newspaper |
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Keokuk | Baptist Herald | ? | 1901[11] | |||
Keokuk | Baptist Missionary | 1917[4] | ||||
Keokuk | Iowa State Citizen | 1897[4] | ||||
Keokuk | Western Baptist Herald | 1881[11] | 1885[11] | |||
Oskaloosa | Iowa District News | 1890[25] | 1891[25] | Monthly[25] | ||
Oskaloosa | Negro Solicitor | 1893[11] or 1895[25] | 1899[25] |
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Oskaloosa | Gazette | 1896[25] | 1896[25] | |||
Ottumwa | New Era | 1901[4] | ||||
Sioux City | Silent Messenger | 1937[26] | 1938[26] | |||
Sioux City | Enterprise | 1936[26] | 1938[26] | |||
Sioux City | Weekly Review | 1928[26] | 1930[26] | |||
Sioux City | Afro-American Advance | 1908[26] | 1912[26] | Weekly[26] | ||
Sioux City | Searchlight | 1899[27] | 1902[27] | Weekly[27] | ||
Waterloo | The Defender / The Waterloo Defender | 1963[29] or 1966[28] | ?[28] | Weekly[28] | ||
Waterloo | Observer | 1941[31] | ||||
Waterloo and Cedar Falls | Parker Tribune | 1980s[10] | 1980s[10] | |||
Waterloo | The Waterloo Post | 1952[32] | ?[32] | Weekly[32] |
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Waterloo | Special Delivery | 1987[10] | ? | |||
Waterloo | Star | 1950s[10] | 1950s[10] | Weekly[10] |
See also
[edit]- List of African American newspapers and media outlets
- List of African American newspapers in Illinois
- List of African American newspapers in Minnesota
- List of African American newspapers in Missouri
- List of African American newspapers in Nebraska
Works cited
[edit]- Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.
- Jones, Allen W. (1996). "Equal Rights to All, Special Privileges to None: The Black Press in Iowa, 1882-1985". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985. ISBN 9780313255793.
- Junne, George H. (2000). Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313312083.
- Patterson, Elaine (1987). The Iowa Bystander : a history of the second 25 years (1920-1945) (MS thesis). Iowa State University.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Jones 1996, p. 72.
- ^ Patterson 1987, p. 99.
- ^ Henry, Rachelle D. (2019). Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa. Arcadia Publishing. p. 64. ISBN 9781467140461.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Jones 1996, p. 84.
- ^ a b c d e Patterson 1987, p. 11.
- ^ a b Junne 2000, p. 338.
- ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 126, ¶ 1311.
- ^ a b c d Jones 1996, p. 83.
- ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 161, ¶ 1671.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Jones 1996, p. 101.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Junne 2000, p. 339.
- ^ a b c d Jones 1996, p. 99.
- ^ a b c d e f Jones 1996, p. 100.
- ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 605, ¶ 6329.
- ^ Jones 1996, p. 75.
- ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 306, ¶ 3218.
- ^ a b Danky & Hady 1998, p. 306, ¶ 3219.
- ^ Jones 1996, p. 76.
- ^ a b Gruber-Miller, Stephen. "Publisher and activist Jonathan Narcisse dies at age 54". Retrieved 2019-12-20.
- ^ a b Danky & Hady 1998, p. 167, ¶ 1738.
- ^ a b c Jones 1996, p. 91.
- ^ a b c d e Jones 1996, p. 90.
- ^ Jones 1996, p. 94.
- ^ Jones 1996, p. 93.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Jones 1996, p. 73.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Jones 1996, p. 82.
- ^ a b c Jones 1996, p. 81.
- ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 189, ¶ 1964.
- ^ Jones 1996, p. 102.
- ^ Jones 1996, p. 102–104.
- ^ Junne 2000, p. 340.
- ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 604, ¶ 6313.