The Rising Son (Kansas City, Mo.) 1896-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
195 issues from 1900 to 1907, published in Kansas City, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Rising Son was an African American newspaper published in Kansas City in Jackson County, Missouri. The paper operated from 1896 through 1918 with Lewis Wood as editor. From 1896 until November 17, 1905, the Rising Son was issued each Friday as an eight-page weekly. For a brief span–November and December 1905–the paper came out on Thursdays. Beginning on December 15, 1906, the Rising Son changed its publication schedule again, appearing on Saturdays.
Lewis Wood believed in patronizing businesses which did not discriminate against African Americans in employment or sales, and he placed special emphasis on supporting black enterprises. However, Wood was proud of the paper’s success beyond the African American community, and in the March 23, 1907 issue, he expressed pleasure “in gaining the confidence of the large white business firms in regard to its advertisements as trade promoters.”
William T. Washington purchased the Rising Son from Harry R. Graham in 1906. Washington had studied at Williams and Oberlin colleges and had worked for a time with Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Under Washington’s leadership, the Rising Son expanded its news coverage and broadened the sources of its advertisements. An ambitious politician, Washington attempted to use the newspaper to advance his own political career and complained that Nelson C. Crews of the Kansas City Sun, another African American newspaper, attempted to obstruct his political influence. The feud between…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kansas City, Missouri, 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