The Yellow Jacket (Institute, W. Va.) 19??-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5 issues from 1930 to 1932, published in Institute, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Yellow Jacket is the official news organ for the West Virginia State College (WVSC) student body. WVSC is a historically Black college located in Institute, West Virginia that was founded in 1891 as a federal land-grant educational institution. Despite starting as a small school in the 1890s with as little as forty enrolled students, WVSC grew under the leadership of its fifth President, John Warren Davis, who helped expand the institution into a regionally and nationally recognized college, with over 1,000 enrolled students by 1930. During this time of growth, the college student body founded the school’s student newspaper, which they named after the college’s mascot, the Yellow Jacket. Moreover, WVSC campus student publishing flourished during the expansive growth of the college in the 1930s; the German department published a companion piece to the Yellow Jacket, a German language paper called Das Deutsche Blatt.
The Yellow Jacket began in 1930 and started as a four-page paper with a yearly subscription rate of one dollar, or five cents for a single copy, published throughout the fall and spring semesters at WVSC. The Yellow Jacket began as a student collaborative project that had stated goals for the improvement of the regional and national status of WVSC during an era in which racial school segregation caused African American colleges to be overlooked and underfunded. Therefore, most of the seven stated goals of the Yellow Jacket involved combatting the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Institute, West Virginia, 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