The Grenada Sentinel (Grenada, Miss.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,076 issues from 1868 to 1922, published in Grenada, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
The original title of the Sentinel, Grenada, Mississippi’s longest running newspaper, started around 1855, is unclear. In 1867, the four-page paper was known as the Grenada Weekly Sentinel. Its editor was John Augustine “Gus” Signaigo, a former writer for the Memphis Daily Appeal. The paper’s name was shortened to the Grenada Sentinel in February 1868, shortly before Signaigo became the proprietor. Highly regarded by his fellow newspapermen, the Italian-born Signaigo was also a scholar and a poet who published his writings in the Sentinel. Signaigo died in his mid-40s in 1876 from yellow fever.
John Walton Buchanan, a printer at the Grenada Sentinel, purchased the newspaper from Signaigo’s widow, shortly before she also died from yellow fever, a year after her husband. Buchanan had moved with his family to Woodville, Mississippi, where, as a teenager, he began his journalism career at the oldest newspaper in Mississippi, the Woodville Republican (1858-current). Despite being perceived as “difficult,” Buchanan succeeded in making the Sentinel profitable, expanding it to eight pages by 1881. He managed the Sentinel for over 25 years. Like his predecessor, Buchanan died in his prime; he was only 49 years old when he passed away in 1904.
From the 1860s through the early 20th century, the Grenada Sentinel emphatically supported the interests of the Democratic Party. With the title change in 1868 came a new motto, “The White Man’s Government of Our Fathers,” which left no doubt…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grenada, 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