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Liberty (La Center, Ky.) 19??-19??

  • February 16, 1910
  • Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

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1 issue from 1910, published in La Center, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.

First published in 1909, the Liberty at once demonstrates the rapid growth of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America–better known as the National Farmers Union–as well as the organization’s limited appeal in early 20th-century Kentucky. The Liberty began publication in La Center, Kentucky, as an outgrowth of the La Center Advance, a four-page Democratic weekly also published by the Liberty Publishing Company. The Advance, established in 1906, had been an ardent local voice for the National Farmers Union. The Liberty was conceived as a means to extend the union’s message to a statewide audience. A single issue of Liberty from February 16, 1910, survives.

Founded in Texas in 1902, the National Farmers Union was, like the National Grange and the Farm Bureau Federation, one of several organizations then representing the interests of American farmers. R. L. Barnett, a Texan, arrived in Kentucky to organize for the union. He and farmers in the state’s westernmost region, the so-called Jackson Purchase, established Kentucky’s first union local in Carlisle County in May 1906. A state union was organized in Paducah in August 1908, and all but one of the officers elected at the state convention came from Jackson Purchase counties. Despite significant activity in western Kentucky, the Union met with limited success elsewhere in the state and soon disappeared from Kentucky altogether. In 1909, the National Farmers Union’s President Charles Simon Barrett attributed…

Genres
News
Published in
La Center, Kentucky, 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

Issues

February 1910