El Sol (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,151 issues from 1942 to 1963, published in Phoenix, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.
El Sol was one of the largest Spanish-language newspapers in Phoenix. The paper was founded in 1939 by married couple Jesús Franco and Josefina Carrascoso de Franco, who were considered “powerful leaders in Phoenix’s Mexican community” (Frank M. Barrios, Mexicans in Phoenix, 2008). In the 1930s, they had established the Fiestas Patrias in Phoenix, celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day. Jesús was an organizer of activist community groups like Alianza Hispano-Americano in Arizona and Texas; Josefina was described by the Arizona Republic as “champion of Arizona-Mexico relations.” El Sol‘s pages frequently featured news about these community activities. In 1939, a disagreement related to the annual Fiestas Patrias celebration between Jesús Franco and Gregorio Moreno, president of Alianza Hispano-Americano, played out in a series of columns and editorials in both El Sol and fellow Phoenix Spanish-language newspaper El Mensajero.
El Sol was a strong voice for the Mexican American community in Phoenix. It regularly focused on local news, from social to political, and covered issues of importance to its community, such as discrimination against Mexican Americans in Phoenix. There were also articles about braceros, from headlines about the arrival of hundreds of agricultural workers from Mexico, to reports about legislation affecting the program. Advertisements for local businesses like Teatro Rex that showed films from Mexico were common, as was poetry, a literary column,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- 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