The Savannah Tribune (Savannah [Ga.]; Savannah, Ga.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,792 issues from 1876 to 1943, published in Savannah, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
John H. Deveaux, Louis B. Toomer, Sr., and Louis M. Pleasant, three prominent African American businesspeople and Republican officials, published the first issue of the Colored Tribune on December 4, 1875, in Savannah, Georgia. They renamed the weekly paper the Savannah Tribune in 1876, and that title persisted while it became one of the longest-running African American newspapers in the South. As the paper’s manager and editorial voice, Deveaux dedicated the pages of the Tribune principally to the advancement of Savannah’s African American community and Republican Party. That same year, Deveaux published editorials encouraging Savannah’s Black residents to register to vote and garnered attention by condemning the Savannah Theatre for segregating seats at a performance of the all-Black Braham Musical Club. Despite the publication’s success, there were no printing presses owned by African Americans in Savannah, and the Tribune was forced to suspend publication in 1878 after white Democratic printers refused to print the newspaper.
When Deveaux and R. W. White revived the Tribune on October 23, 1886, the paper published from its own printing plant located on St. Julian Street. In that issue’s salutatory editorial, Deveaux explained that “the main and higher object of our paper will be to promote the cause of education, cooperating with all teachers and workers in that cause, and the moral and material advancement of the colored people.” In 1889, editorial control of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Savannah, Georgia, 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