List of African-American newspapers in Mississippi

This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in Mississippi. It includes both current and historical newspapers.

A surviving issue of the Vicksburg Golden Rule, from 1899.

The first such newspaper in Mississippi was the Colored Citizen in 1867.[1] More than 70 African-American newspapers were founded across Mississippi between 1867 and 1899, in at least 37 different towns.[2] From 1900 to 1980, at least 116 more such newspapers were founded in the state, but increasingly concentrated in the larger cities.[3] The Jackson Advocate is the oldest African American newspaper still in publication. The Mississippi Link was one of the first African American publications to be widely available on the internet [4].

Several African-American newspapers are currently published in Mississippi. They are highlighted in green in the list below.

Newspapers
City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks
Brandon The Free State 1898[5] 1904[5]
  • LCCN sn84025823, 2011254379
  • OCLC 753811338, 10347200, 2747535
  • Edited by E.H. Johnson.[5]
Brookhaven People's Relief 1900s 1910
  • Edited by Eugene N. Bryant, who was driven from Brookhaven by white mob in retaliation for his political positions.[6]
Canton Canton Citizen 1869[2] ?
Cary The Weekly Negro World 1890s[7] 1900s[7]
Clarksdale Tutwiler Whirlwind 1979[8]
  • Edited in 1979 by J.D. Rayford.[8]
Columbia Brotherhood 1976[9]
Fayette Jefferson County Chronicle 1986[10] 1992[10]
Greenville The Delta Farmer’s Digest 1939[11] ?[11]
  • Published by H.H. Humes Publishing Co.[11]
  • Attested through at least 1948.[12]
Greenville
  • The Delta Leader[13]
  • Greenville Leader[14]
 1929[15] or 1930[13] ?[13]
Greenville
  • The Delta Lighthouse
  • Delta Light House[16]
 1896[17] 1930[17] or 1920s[16]
  • Published by E.M. Weddington.[17]
  • Edited by J.C. Chapple from 1896 until his death in 1919.[16]
Greenville Mississippi Freelance 1969[18] 1970[18]
  • Different color of paper used for each issue.[19]
Greenville Mississippi News 1974[8]
  • Founded by Katie M. Johnson and David Johnson.[8]
Greenville Mississippiana 1900s[20] 1900s[20]
  • Attested from at least 1942.[20]
Greenville Negro Leader 1962[8]
  • Founded by Albert Jenkins.[8]
Greenville The Voice Of SHIMPH 1975[21] 1900s[21]
Greenville The Zion Harp 1896[22] 1910[22]
Greenwood The Baptist Observer 1960?[23] ?[23]
  • Published by General Missionary Baptist Convention of Mississippi. Edited by W.L. Terrell.[23]
Hattiesburg Hub City Community News 1984[24] 1987[25]
  • Published by Eddie Taylor.[24]
Hattiesburg The Union Messenger 1934[26] 1900s[26]
Holly Springs Mississippi Oddfellow 1908?[27] ?[27]
  • Edited by E.H. McKissak.[27]
  • Attested through at least 1915.[27]
Jackson Jackson Advocate 1938[28] or 1939[29] current
Jackson Colored Citizen 1870[2] ?
Jackson
  • The Drummer[30]
  • The Drummer: Mississippi’s Black Community Newspaper[31]
 1971[31] 1900s[30]
Jackson
1944[32] 1967?[33]
  • Published by Arrington High.[32]
  • "The one radical journal of resistance" out of the five newspapers published in Mississippi in the 1950s.[34]
Jackson The Mississippi Enterprise 1938[35] or 1939[15] ?[35]
Jackson Mississippi Free Press 1961[37] 1964[38]
Jackson Highlighter 1975[8]
  • Founded by Gene L. Mosley.[8]
Jackson Mississippi Independent 1967[40] 1967?[40]
Jackson The Mississippi Link 1993[41] current
Jackson The Messenger 1800s[42] ?[42]
Jackson Metropolitan Observer 1976
  • Founded by Lee Dilworth.[9]
Jackson The New African 1900s[43] ?[43]
Jackson
  • People's Journal
  • People's Advisor
  • People's Defender
 1877[44] 1882?[16]
Jackson Mississippi Weekly 1930s[45] 1900s[45]
Jackson Jackson Field Hand 1870?[16]
Jackson Weekly Communicator 1975[8]
  • Founded by James H. Meredith and Louis Armstrong.[8]
Laurel Voice Of The People 1900s[46] 1900s[46]
McComb Freedom's Journal 1964[47]
  • Edited by Barbara JoAnn Lea.[47]
Meridian The Echo 1923[48] 1931[48]
Meridian The Echo 1942[48] 1960[48]
Meridian Mississippi Memo Digest 1968[49] ?
  • Attested through at least 1979.[49]
  • Editor: Robert E. Williams.[49]
Meridian
  • The Weekly Echo
  • Daily Echo
 1931[50] 1942[50]
Moss Point Pas-Point Journal 1976[8]
  • Founded by Bernard Barnes and E.V. Cole.[8]
Mound Bayou Demonstrator 1900[16] 1925?[16]
  • Edited by Aurelius P. Hood.[51]
  • Circulation of 4,000 in 1912.[16]
Mound Bayou Mound Bayou News-Digest 1900s[52] 1900s[52]
  • Attested from at least 1948–1950.[52]
Mound Bayou The Mound Bayou Sentinel 1952[53] ?[53]
Mound Bayou The Southern Advocate 1933[54] ?[54]
Mound Bayou The Taborian Star 1923?[55] ?[55]
Mound Bayou The Voice 1900s[56] 1900s[56]
  • Attested from at least 1970–1971.[56]
Natchez Bluff City Bulletin 1961[57] 1966[57]
  • Published by Savoy Publishing Company. Edited by Theodore C. Johnson.[57]
Natchez Bluff City Post 1978[58] current
  • Founded by William H. Terrell and Theo C. Johnson.[8]
Natchez Natchez News Leader 1971[59] 1983?[59]
  • Founded by William H. Terrell and Theo C. Johnson.[8]
Natchez Weekly Reporter 1909 1930s?[16]
  • Owned and edited by Joseph A. Young, Jr.[60]
  • Circulation may have reached 1500.[16]
New Albany The Community Citizen 1900s[61] 1900s[61]
Senatobia The Baptist Herald 1888[62] 1800s[62]
  • Attested through at least 1891.[62]
Vicksburg Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal 1964[63] 1967[63]
Vicksburg Colored Citizen 1867[2] ?
  • Founded by Vicksburg civic leader Henry Mason.[2]
Vicksburg The Golden Rule 1898[64] 1902[64]
Vicksburg The Light 1891[65] 1900s[65]
Vicksburg The New Times 1993?[66] ?
Yazoo City Afro-American Courier 1926[67] 1957?[68]
Yazoo City
1942[69] ?[69]

See also

Works cited
  • Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • McMillen, Neil R. (1990). Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252061561.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Pride, Armistead Scott; Wilson, Clint C. (1997). A History of the Black Press. Howard University Press. ISBN 9780882581927.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Smith, Jessie Carney (2012). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578593699.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Thompson, Julius Eric (1983). "Mississippi". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The Black Press in the South, 1865–1979. ISBN 9780313222443.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Thompson, Julius Eric (2001). Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State. ISBN 9780761819226.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Thompson, Julius Eric (2015). Lynchings in Mississippi (reprint ed.). ISBN 9780786464418.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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  2. Thompson 1983, p. 178.
  3. Thompson 1983, p. 181.
  4. https://www.blacknews.com/directory/black_african_american_newspapers.shtml
  5. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 237, ¶ 2487.
  6. McMillen 1990, p. 176.
  7. "About The weekly Negro world. [volume] (Cary, Miss.) 189?-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  8. Thompson 2001, p. 52.
  9. Thomspon 2001, p. 52.
  10. "About Jefferson County chronicle. (Fayette, Miss.) 1986-1992". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  11. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 191, ¶ 1983.
  12. "About The Delta farmer's digest. (Greenville, Miss.) 19??-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  13. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 191, ¶ 1985.
  14. "About Greenville leader. (Greenville, Miss.) 1930-1939". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  15. Thompson 1983, p. 182.
  16. McMillen 1990, p. 173.
  17. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 191, ¶ 1986.
  18. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 371, ¶ 3865.
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  20. "About Mississippiana. (Greenville, Miss.) 19??-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  21. "About The Voice of SHIMPH. (Greenville, Miss.) 1975-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  22. "About The Zion harp. (Greenville, Miss.) 1896-1910". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  23. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 60, ¶ 615.
  24. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 285, ¶ 2993.
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  26. "About The Union messenger. (Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Miss.) 1934-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
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  28. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 308, ¶ 3241.
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  30. "About The drummer. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1971-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
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  33. Becca Walton (2018-04-19). "Jackson Eagle Eye". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for Study of Southern Culture. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
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  35. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 370, ¶ 3861.
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  41. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 371, ¶ 3867.
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  54. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 525, ¶ 5488.
  55. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 551, ¶ 5754.
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  57. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 110, ¶ 1144.
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  64. Danky & Hady 1998, p. 251, ¶ 2631.
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