Atlanta Georgian (Atlanta, Ga.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,679 issues from 1912 to 1914, published in Atlanta, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Frederick Loring Seely and John Temple Graves conspicuously launched the Atlanta Georgian with a special 36-page issue on April 25, 1906. With an initial 17,000 subscribers, the Georgian became Atlanta’s third-largest daily broadsheet and an evening competitor to The Atlanta Journal. Weeks before the Georgian‘s first issue, large advertisements appeared in newspapers across Georgia emphasizing the paper’s independence and its privately leased telegram wire; using the penny-press business model, the Georgian stressed its access to the most up-to-date information. As a famous New South orator, politician, and writer, Graves’ name accompanied each advertisement in bold lettering beneath the soon-to-be paper’s name. Former Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta News employees, made up the Georgian‘s staff, including Charles J. Bayne, another noteworthy Southern writer. The newspaper’s early political content advocated for prohibition, criticized Georgia’s convict-lease system, and pushed for child labor laws. Graves, also a notable segregationist and defender of lynch law, expressed these beliefs in widely circulatededitorials.
Throughout the 1906 gubernatorial campaigns, the Georgian supported segregationist and reform Democrat Hoke Smith; the paper’s Democratic politics continued for the rest of its 33-year run. Additionally, the sheet contributed to growing racial tensions in the city, and circulated unsubstantiated claims of alleged assaults on white women, supposedly perpetuated…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Atlanta, Georgia, 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