The Greenville Times (Greenville, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,665 issues from 1874 to 1910, published in Greenville, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Washington County, Mississippi, created in 1827 from parts of Warren and Yazoo counties, is in the heart of the Yazoo-Mississippi River Delta. White planters, through the labor of large numbers of African-American slaves, cleared the rich alluvial soil to grow cotton. In the early 20th century, the county seat of Greenville, located on the Mississippi River, was a commercial center and developed some light manufacturing.
The Greenville Times began publication in 1868. Also known as the Weekly Times, its frequency, size, and intended audience varied. Initially a weekly, from October 1895 to March 1910 the paper was sometimes a semiweekly, weekly, or daily, before finally stabilizing once more as a weekly. In the 1870s, the Times comprised four pages, but in the 20th century issues were usually eight pages. An 1878 advertisement stated that the paper was “especially devoted to the interests of Greenville and the counties of Washington, Bolivar, Issaquena, Sunflower, and Sharkey.” By 1909, the intended audience was primarily Greenville and Washington County because vibrant papers had been established in the surrounding counties.
Captain John Seymore McNeely was the longest serving editor of the Weekly Times. The staunch Democrat and Confederate veteran had been co-proprietor of the Woodville Republican (1858 – ) before buying the Greenville Times in 1869. McNeely was owner/editor until 1892 and later edited the Vicksburg Herald (1897-1957). During his tenure at the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Greenville, Mississippi, 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