Enakopravnost (Cleveland, O.[Ohio])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,439 issues from 1942 to 1947, published in Cleveland, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
In the late 1800s, Cleveland, Ohio, became home to a large Slovenian immigrant population, which would eventually increase to form the largest Slovenian community in the United States. By 1912, there were 25,000 Slovenians in the city, 3,000 of whom had gained their citizenship. Serving this community were a number of Slovenian-language newspapers, the first having been the Nova Domovina (“New Home”), founded in 1899. The Enakopravnost (“Equality”) was established in 1918 as the first Slovenian daily newspaper in Cleveland. Its founding was mainly in response to the movement for an independent Yugoslav state at the end of World War I. Initially a labor paper with a slight Republican bent, the Enakopravnost became Independent five years after its start. The main rival to this liberal publication was the conservative and Catholic-oriented Ameriška Domovina (“American Home”), which had begun as the Clevelandska Amerika in 1908, replacing the Nova Domovina and changing its name after World War I.
As a Cleveland-centered paper, the Enakopravnost often reported on local news, as well as important developments from across the state of Ohio. In addition, the newspaper covered national and European news; during World War II, for example, there was substantial coverage of events in both the European and Pacific theaters. As a labor-oriented paper, the Enakopravnost also reported on the activities of unions throughout the country, including picketing in Philadelphia at a General…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- 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