The Gazette (Cleveland, Ohio) 1892-194?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,572 issues from 1892 to 1945, published in Cleveland, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
Originally from Clarksburg, West Virginia, African American newspaper editor and politician Harry Clay Smith (sometimes “Henry Clay Smith” or “H.C. Smith”) discovered journalism at the desegregated Central High School in Cleveland, OH. He started the Cleveland Gazette and the Gazette Publishing Company with John F. Lightfoot, John A. Holmes, and James H. Jackson in 1883. By the time it ended, the Gazette had become the longest running African American newspaper in Ohio and the nation.
The 1860s and 1870s saw a decrease in African American newspapers due to the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. With the increase in African American literacy and migration by the 1880s, the nation saw a rejuvenation of African American periodicals and newspapers protesting and fighting for African American civil rights. The Cleveland Gazette was one of the titles aimed at mobilizing Ohioan African American voters for anti-mob, anti-lynching, and desegregation causes.
The Cleveland Gazette was the first newspaper to revive the Cleveland Black press scene since the Aliened American folded in 1854. Written under the motto “In Union is Strength,” the Cleveland Gazette was a six-columned, four-page, weekly paper. It promoted the Republican party and Smith’s political agenda. In its inaugural issue on August 25, 1883, the Cleveland Gazette stated that it was a “stern advocate of the People’s Rights” and stood for “absolute impartiality in newspaper treatment.” It rallied for “young colored…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cleveland, Ohio, 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