The Weekly Review (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1933-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
8 issues from 1933, published in Lincoln, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Weekly Review was a short-lived, but important African-American community newspaper published and edited by Reverend Trago T. McWilliams. McWilliams owned three restaurants in Lincoln called the Quality Diners. As a minister, he preached at African Methodist Episcopal churches, ending his career at Christ Temple Mission Church, one of Lincoln’s oldest multi-racial churches. Among the associate editors of the Weekly Review were Jennie Edwards, Millard Woods, and Loretta Swanegan. The annual subscription price for the 4-page newspaper was 50 cents.
Published for several months early in 1933, the Weekly Review was a strong proponent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and advocated for the formation of the Lincoln Urban League, a multi-racial organization that worked towards economic and social betterment of African-Americans and increased understanding among all races. Visiting dignitaries such as J. Harvey Kerns, Executive Secretary of the Omaha Urban League, and W. Robert Smalls, Executive Secretary of the Kansas City Urban League, supported the Lincoln Urban League organizing committee. The paper also reported on fundraising benefits for the Lincoln Urban League. One of the associate editors of the Weekly Review Millard Woods became the first director of the Lincoln Urban League. In 1955, the Lincoln Urban League was reorganized and became what is now known as the Clyde Malone Community Center, maintaining the mission of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress