Alabama Tribune Explained

The Alabama Tribune was a newspaper published in Montgomery, Alabama in the US. According to the Library of Congress' website it was established in the 1930s and ceased publication in the 1960s.[1] Newspapers.com has archives of the paper from 1946 to 1964.[2]

The paper had a tagline of "Clean - Constructive - Conservative", and promoted itself with the line "Covers Alabama Like the Dew".[3]

It reported on a legal case challenging racial segregation at the University of Alabama.[4] It reported on Montgomery bus boycott activities, the NAACP being ruled "foreign", and on Martin Luther King Jr.'s organizing.[5] On October 31, 1958 the paper reported on Martin Luther King Jr.'s return to Montgomery.[6] Editor Jackson wrote about wanting "first come, first served" treatment on buses.[7]

Jackson was an organizer of what became The Committee for Equal Justice. In 1938, Earnest W. Taggart wrote to him suggesting the Montgomery NAACP branch be revived.[8] In 1944, following the rape of Recy Taylor, Jackson worked with Eugene Gordon of the Daily Worker to organize a meeting with governor Chauncey Sparks, who committed to hold an investigation.[9]

The Montgomery Enterprise[10] and Montgomery-Tuskegee Times[11] were other newspapers for African Americans in Montgomery.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alabama tribune.. National Endowment for the. Humanities. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
  2. Web site: Alabama Tribune Archive. Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Alabama Tribune 13 Sep 1946, page 1. Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: Alabama Tribune from Montgomery, Alabama. December 16, 1955. Newspapers.com.
  5. Web site: Box 19 - Binder 08: June 1956, 1956 June 1 | Levi Watkins Learning Center. archivesspace.alasu.edu.
  6. Web site: Statement Upon Return to Montgomery | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. kinginstitute.stanford.edu.
  7. Web site: Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. J. Mills. Thornton. September 25, 2002. University of Alabama Press. Google Books.
  8. Web site: The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955. Silvan. Niedermeier. September 17, 2019. UNC Press Books. Google Books.
  9. Book: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power . Danielle L. . McGuire . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group . 2011 . 9780307389244 .
  10. Web site: The Montgomery Enterprise. (Montgomery, Ala.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900. William. Jenkins. G. M.. Noble. January 26, 1900. The Portal to Texas History.
  11. Web site: Montgomery-Tuskegee Times.

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