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List of African American newspapers in Colorado

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the U.S. State of Colorado. It includes both current and historical newspapers.

A 1906 issue of Franklin's Paper The Statesman, which adopted this name to avoid confusion with its competitor The Colorado Statesman.

Many of the historical newspapers were published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the number of African Americans in Colorado rose from 1,163 in 1870 to 11,453 in 1910.[1] Colorado's first African American newspaper may have been the Denver Weekly Star, which was in circulation by 1881.[2]

Notable newspapers in Colorado today include the Denver Weekly News, the Denver Urban Spectrum, and the African-American Voice of Colorado Springs.

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Newspapers edit

City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks


Colorado Springs African American Voice 1991[3] current Monthly[4] OCLC 68567220
Colorado Springs Colorado Advance[6] 1906[6] or 1914[5] 1917[5] Weekly[5]
  • Edited by E.B. Butler.[6]
Colorado Springs Colored Dispatch 1900[7] or 1905[8] 1913[7] or 1906[8] Weekly[7]
  • Edited by Porter S. Simpson.[7]
Colorado Springs Colorado Dispatch 1909[3] 1912[3] Weekly[9]
Colorado Springs Eagle 1912[10] 1913[10] Weekly[10]

Full text of one issue available at Colorado College

  • Edited by Mrs. Julia Embry.[10]
Colorado Springs Light 1908[11] 1912[11] Weekly[11]
  • Edited by Frederick Mason Roberts.[11]
Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Sun 1897[12][13] 1905[12] Weekly[12]
  • Founded to fulfill "the need of an independent, reliable organ, wherein the Afro-Americans of this city . . . could find expression of their best thought and material progress."[13]
Colorado Springs Voice of Colorado 1912?[14] 1914[14] Weekly[14] Full text available from Colorado College
Colorado Springs The Colorado Voice[15] 1948[15] ?[15] Weekly[15]
Colorado Springs The Western Enterprise 1892[17] or 1896[16] 1912[16] Weekly[16]
Denver The African Advocate 1890[18] 1891[18] Weekly[18]
Denver Afro-American 1889[20] 1890[20] Weekly[20]
Denver Denver Argus 1886[21] 1888[21] Weekly[21]
  • Only one issue of the Argus survives, from 1886.[22]
Denver The Denver Blade 1960[25] or 1961[23] 1970[23][24] Weekly[23]
Denver Denver Chronicle 1968[25] 1970[25] Weekly[26]
Denver Denver Dispatch / The Denver Dispatch 1957[27] or 1958[28] ? Weekly[28]
Denver Denver Drum / The Drum[29] 1971[25] 1973[25] Weekly[29]
  • Founded by Jessica Grant.[25]
Denver Colorado Exponent 1889[30] ?[30] Weekly[30]
Denver Denver Exponent 1892[31] 1895[31] Weekly[31]
  • Absorbed into the Denver Statesman.[32] Edited by A.R. Wilson.[33]
Denver (Five Points) The Five Pointer[35] 1938 1946?[34] Weekly[34]
Denver Denver Independent 1902[36] or 1910[37] 1913[36] Weekly[36]
  • Founded by Thomas Campbell.[32]
  • In 1916 the Star announced that “[t]he papers formerly known as The Statesman and The Independent have been merged into The Star.”[32]
Denver The Denver Inquirer 1952[39] or 1953[38] 1954[32] or 1953[38] Weekly[38]
  • Generally listed as an African American newspaper.[32][27] Billed itself as "non-racial, non-political, non-sectarian - Denver's Picture Weekly."[32]
Denver The Colorado Journal 1948[40] ? Weekly[40]
Denver (Park Hill)[41] Denver East News 1965[42] ? Weekly[42]
  • Attested through 1970.[41]
Denver Denver Weekly News 1971[43] current Weekly[44]
Denver Denver Weekly Star / The Denver Star 1879[32] or 1881[2][45] 1883[2] Weekly[2]
Denver The Denver Star (1913–1963) / Franklin's Paper The Denver Star (1912–1913) 1912[48] or 1913[47] 1963[47] Weekly
  • Available online
  • A continuation of The Statesman (est. 1880s).[49] Known from November 23, 1912 to March 15, 1913 as Franklin's Paper The Denver Star, and then simply The Denver Star.[50]
  • Sold by Chester Arthur Franklin in 1913 to the Denver Independent Publishing Company, which ran the paper until the end in 1963.[49]
Denver The Colorado Statesman 1895[51] 1961[51] Weekly[51]
  • Founded by Joseph D.D. Rivers.[52] Rivers had also previously founded a different weekly called The Statesman, which was later known as The Denver Star.[49]
  • Distinct from a white weekly that was later also called The Colorado Statesman (1898–2017), but until the 1970s was named the Colorado Democrat.
Denver The Statesman / The Statesman-Exponent (1895–1896) / Franklin's Paper The Statesman (1906–1912) 1885[53] or 1888[49] or 1889[54] 1912[53] Weekly[53]
  • Available online
  • First owned by Joseph D.D. Rivers.[49] Taken over by Edwin Henry Hackley, Colorado's first Black attorney, in 1892, and sold to George F. Franklin in 1898.[49]
  • Briefly renamed the Statesman-Exponent in 1895–1896 following the acquisition of the Denver Exponent.[55]
  • Renamed Franklin's Paper The Statesman in 1906, to avoid confusion with The Colorado Statesman.[49] Became the Denver Star, which was initially known as Franklin's Paper The Denver Star, in 1912.[49]
Denver Times Speaker 1900s[56] ?[56] Twice weekly[56]
  • In circulation in 1902.[56]
Denver / Aurora[57] Denver Urban Spectrum 1987[58] current Monthly[58]
  • Official site
  • Founded by Rosalind J. Harris.[59] "Founded in 1987, the Denver Urban Spectrum (DUS) newspaper covers news and information for and about people of color."[58]
La Junta Megaphone[3][61] 1913[60] 1915[60] Weekly[60]
  • Founded by Thomas L. Cate.[62]
Pueblo Rocky Mountain Advocate 1898[63] 1899[63] Weekly[63]
  • Edited by William Jeltz[64]
Pueblo The Western Ideal[35] 1919[65] or 1923[66] 1960[65] Weekly[66]
Pueblo Religious World 1906?[68] 1908[68] Weekly[68]
Pueblo Rising Sun 1919[69] 1921[69] or 1923[70] Weekly[69]
Pueblo Colorado Times[73] 1904[72] 1912[72] Weekly[72]
  • Founded by M.B. Brooks.[74]
Pueblo Times 1894[75] 1895[75] Weekly[75]
  • Edited by O.L. Boyd.[75]
Pueblo Tribune 1898[76] 1900[76] Weekly[76]
Pueblo Tribune-Press 1895[77] 1904[77] Weekly[77]
  • Edited by O.L. Boyd.[75]
Trinidad Leader 1911[79] 1915[78] or 1912[79] Weekly[79]

See also edit

Works cited edit

References edit

  1. ^ Berardi & Segady 1990, p. 110.
  2. ^ a b c d Oehlerts 1964, p. 33, ¶ 567.
  3. ^ a b c d Junne 2000, p. 326.
  4. ^ "About African American Voice". Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  5. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 61, ¶ 1201.
  6. ^ a b c Abajian 1974, p. 389, ¶ 4214.
  7. ^ a b c d Abajian 1974, p. 389, ¶ 4215.
  8. ^ a b Oehlerts 1964, p. 60, ¶ 1188.
  9. ^ Oehlerts 1964, p. 61, ¶ 1195.
  10. ^ a b c d Abajian 1974, p. 389, ¶ 4216.
  11. ^ a b c d Abajian 1974, p. 389, ¶ 4217.
  12. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 60, ¶ 1173.
  13. ^ a b Berardi & Segady 1990, p. 106.
  14. ^ a b c Abajian 1974, p. 389, ¶ 4218.
  15. ^ a b c d "About The Colorado voice. (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 1948-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  16. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 611, ¶ 6388.
  17. ^ Oehlerts 1964, p. 59, ¶ 1154.
  18. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 37, ¶ 663.
  19. ^ Flamming, Douglas (2009). African Americans in the West. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598840032.
  20. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 36, ¶ 640.
  21. ^ a b c Abajian 1974, p. 390, ¶ 4222.
  22. ^ "About Denver argus. (Denver, Colo.) 188?-1???". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  23. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 192, ¶ 1993.
  24. ^ Abajian 1974, p. 390, ¶ 4223.
  25. ^ a b c d e f Leavitt 2014, p. 337.
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  27. ^ a b Junne 2000, p. 327.
  28. ^ a b Oehlerts 1964, p. 51, ¶ 1004.
  29. ^ a b "About The drum. (Denver, Colo.) 1971-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  30. ^ a b c Abajian 1974, p. 390, ¶ 4224.
  31. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 38, ¶ 704.
  32. ^ a b c d e f g h i Leavitt 2014, p. 338.
  33. ^ Abajian 1974, p. 390, ¶ 4226.
  34. ^ a b Abajian 1974, p. 390, ¶ 4227.
  35. ^ a b Census Bureau 1939, p. 4.
  36. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 44, ¶ 823.
  37. ^ Abajian 1974, p. 390, ¶ 4228.
  38. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 51, ¶ 996.
  39. ^ "About The Denver inquirer. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1952-1953". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  40. ^ a b "About The Colorado journal. (Denver, Colo.) 1948-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  41. ^ a b Denver east news. OCLC 64683674 – via WorldCat.org.
  42. ^ a b Ayer Directory of Publications. Ayer Press. 1971. p. 151.
  43. ^ "Denver Weekly News - About". Facebook.com. Denver Weekly News. Retrieved 2019-12-22. Launched on February 17, 1971
  44. ^ Danky & Hady 1998, p. 192, ¶ 1995.
  45. ^ Stephens, Ronald Jemal; Larson, La Wanna M. (2008). African Americans of Denver. Arcadia. pp. 9, 17. ISBN 9780738556253.
  46. ^ Junger, Richard (2009). ""Thinking Men and Women who Desire to Improve our Condition": Henry O. Wagoner, Civil Rights, and Black Economic Opportunity in Frontier Chicago and Denver, 1846–1887". Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 167. ISBN 9781443811767.
  47. ^ a b "About The Denver star. [microfilm reel] (Denver, Colo.) 1913-1963". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  48. ^ Oehlerts 1964, p. 46, ¶ 880, giving dates as "Nov. 23, 1912 to date"
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  55. ^ Brevard, Lisa Pertillar (2001). A Biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American Singer and Social Activist. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 378. ISBN 9780773475755.
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  63. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 124, ¶ 2355.
  64. ^ Leavitt 2014, p. 1059.
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  66. ^ a b Oehlerts 1964, p. 125, ¶ 2399.
  67. ^ Green, Victor H. (1940). "Card of Thanks". The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1940 Edition.
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  69. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 125, ¶ 2396.
  70. ^ Abajian 1974, p. 391, ¶ 4237.
  71. ^ a b Leavitt 2014, p. 1061.
  72. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 124, ¶ 2370.
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  74. ^ Leavitt 2014, p. 1060.
  75. ^ a b c d e Abajian 1974, p. 391, ¶ 4238.
  76. ^ a b c Abajian 1974, p. 391, ¶ 4239.
  77. ^ a b c Abajian 1974, p. 391, ¶ 4240.
  78. ^ Abajian 1974, p. 391, ¶ 4242.
  79. ^ a b c Oehlerts 1964, p. 97, ¶ 1857.

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