Arizona Tribune (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1958-197?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
275 issues from 1958 to 1963, published in Phoenix, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
Shortly after moving to the United States from England, Edward and Eloise Banks established the Arizona Tribune Pictorial Weekly in July 1958, with the slogan on its editorial page: “All that is needed to remedy the evils of our times is to do justice and give freedom.” Its masthead included an image of the Statue of Liberty, saguaro cacti, and the words “Truth-Justice-Liberty-Equality.” When introducing the new paper, Edward Banks described it as “[a] new pictorial weekly intelligently edited and featuring local and national Negro news which you want to read and cannot find in the daily press…Our paper is dedicated to the advancement of our race.”
Edward was the publisher-editor and Eloise the assistant editor. They each contributed to the editorial page for every issue on topics such as fair employment practices and civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. Their recurring columns appeared side-by-side: “Sights and Sounds” provided readers with poetic descriptions of moments from Eloise’s life, and “Views, Previews, & Reviews” offered political perspectives or other observations from Edward.
The weekly newspaper was usually about eight pages in length and focused heavily on local news, including profiles of local political candidates, school news, birth and marriage announcements, obituaries, recipes, and society news. As a pictorial, the Arizona Tribune was filled with photographs of community members, from children awaiting a visit from Santa Claus to high…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Phoenix, Arizona, 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