Twin-City Herald (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
440 issues from 1927 to 1940, published in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Twin-City Herald, published weekly in Minneapolis, Minnesota between 1927 and 1940, was one of many short-lived African American newspapers issued in the Twin Cities in the 1920s and 1930s, with each lasting an average of only five years. What distinguishes the Herald is the notability of its co-founder, Cecil E. Newman, who later became a leader in the Twin Cities Black community and publisher and editor of the influential and long-running African American newspapers the Minneapolis Spokesman and the St. Paul Recorder.
Newman had moved to Minneapolis from Kansas City in 1922, working as a busboy and Pullman porter. In April 1927, he and printer Joshua E. Perry launched Twin-City Herald, Newman’s first newspaper, with Newman as editor and Perry as publisher. Perry had learned the printing trade at Storer College in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, his hometown. He was the first Black printer to work on the Minneapolis Tribune and had operated his own Perry Printing Company since 1919.
The four-page, six-column Herald featured coverage of local and national news related to the African American community and to racism and racial issues.. A particular area of editorial concern was job discrimination in the Twin Cities. During its 13-year run, the Twin-City Herald was known as a training ground for young Black journalists who went on to form the backbone of the African American press in Minnesota and the Midwest through the twentieth century. In addition to Cecil Newman, this…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Robbinsdale, Minnesota, 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