The Caucasian (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,093 issues from 1900 to 1920, published in Shreveport, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
Considered the “second city” of Louisiana until being surpassed in population by Baton Rouge in the late 20th century, Shreveport was founded on the banks of the Red River in 1836 by steamboat captain Henry Miller Shreve of Pennsylvania. The city quickly became an important cotton shipping center and staging point on the route to Texas. In the early 20th century, Shreveport gradually moved from an agricultural to an industrial economy and from a river shipping center to a railroad hub. Its population nearly doubled between 1900 and 1910. In 1911, the region’s first oil well was drilled, marking the beginning of Shreveport’s rise as an oil center.
In 1889, the Shreveport Daily Democrat was renamed and subsequently issued as the Daily Caucasian and Weekly Caucasian. The name change reflected its support for black disfranchisement and white control of Louisiana’s state government. The weekly edition also became the official state organ of white Populists. The papers’ owner was Victor Grosjean (1844-1928), a native of New Orleans and a veteran of the Civil War. Grosjean had previously worked for two Shreveport newspapers and managed the Heptasoph, a New Orleans newspaper published by the Order of Heptasophs, a national fraternal benevolent association. In 1900, he issued the Caucasian for the first time as a biweekly. It changed to a triweekly in 1903 with four pages dedicated to its mid-week issues and eight to its Sunday issue. The paper was issued once again as the Daily…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Shreveport, Louisiana, 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