The Marietta Journal (Marietta, Georgia; Marietta, Ga.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,810 issues from 1868 to 1909, published in Marietta, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Robert McAlpin Goodman and John Andrew Massey used a salvaged hand press to publish the first four-page issue of the Marietta Journal in December 1866. The paper gained a third owner in 1869 when William S. N. Neal, who joined as a typesetter in 1867, became part owner. Marietta, Georgia, was partially razed during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and the Journal was the city’s first legal organ in two years. As editor, Goodman chronicled Marietta’s recovery and editorialized against radical reconstruction, which split former Confederate states into military districts until those states met perimeters for re-admittance into the Union. Goodman had never supported secession, and he frequently expressed bitter sentiment regarding Georgia’s secession. In a trend that continued beyond Goodman’s tenure, the Journal only endorsed Democratic candidates for office until the mid-20th century.
Goodman, Massey, and Neal co-owned the paper until January 1875, when Goodman sold his shares to Massey and Neal. The two remaining owners managed the Journal for another 34 years. During most of that time, the Journal served as Cobb County’s legal organ, and the paper also briefly carried legal advertisements for the nearby counties of Paulding and Pickens in the late 1870s. The Journal‘s editors published articles in support of public-school systems, child-labor laws, and prohibition. The paper was also a voice for White supremacy and supported policies of segregation and disenfranchisement.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Marietta, 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