Tabor City Tribune (Tabor City, N.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
928 issues from 1946 to 1963, published in Tabor City, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
W. Horace Carter (1921-2009) published the first issue of the Tabor City Tribune on July 26, 1946. Carter, a veteran of World War II and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, moved to Tabor City, a small town in southeastern North Carolina, to work as executive secretary of the local merchants association. Within several months of his arrival, Carter, who had worked for the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at UNC-Chapel Hill, started the Tribune, which published on Friday and charged two dollars for an annual subscription.
The Tribune included coverage of local and regional politics, society news, weather, and a full page of practical advice to farmers. It featured news from and circulated to readers in Tabor City, the surrounding Columbus County, and Horry County, South Carolina, just across the state border. Carter wrote in the newspaper’s inaugural issue that the newspaper was “designed to live and serve the peoples of all races and colors” and would have “no political obligations, no pledges to any pressure groups, no motives other than honorable.” He added that the Tribune would include editorials that call officials to action. “Perhaps we will make an enemy of a few individuals in doing so,” Carter wrote, “But, at the same time, perhaps many others will be served.”
One of the enemies made by Carter and the Tribune was the Ku Klux Klan. After Carter witnessed a Ku Klux Klan motorcade roll through Tabor City in July 1950, the Tribune took…
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- Tabor City, North Carolina, United States
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- English
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- Chronicling America
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