The Omaha Guide (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
863 issues from 1932 to 1958, published in Omaha, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Omaha Guide was a weekly African-American newspaper published from 1927 through 1958. Subscriptions for the paper ran $2.00 per year although the number of pages varied from eight to as few as four pages in later years. The Omaha Guide brandished several mottos near its flag including “Justice and Equality,” “All the News While Its News” and “Hew to the Line.” It featured columns, such as “Among the Churches,” offering ideas of where to go to church; “Women’s News” about recipes and local society news; and “Waiters’ Column.” In the last, H.G. Smith wrote about the beautiful Cottonwood Room at the Blackstone Hotel and the waiters taking care of the “high class trade.”
Among the Guide‘s editors were Charles Chapman Galloway, better known as “C.C.,” Gaines T. Bradford, and Mason Devereaux. Of these, C.C. Galloway, a local minister, was associated with the paper the longest and was the most influential. The paper reported on national, state and local news of interest to the African American community. One 1932 issue reported survey results on industrial and business conditions in Omaha and discussed the diaspora of Southern Blacks migrating to Omaha in two waves—first to take jobs with the Union Pacific Rail Road and second to work in industrial jobs, including packing houses in the Omaha stockyards. The survey noted that prior to WWI, Omaha’s African Americans were primarily employed as domestics and personal servants. It concluded that the changes were largely favorable…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Omaha, Nebraska, 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