Miami Citizen (Miami, Fla.)

• 1938–1949
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

608 issues from 1938 to 1949, published in Miami, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.

Miami’s Central Labor Union began publishing a newspaper in March 1918, due to lack of coverage in the Miami Herald and the Miami Daily Metropolis. Formerly known as the Miami News, the union newspaper became the Miami Citizen in November 1937 to avoid confusion with the Miami Daily News. As the official newspaper of the Florida Federation of Labor, Central Labor Union, Building Trades Council, and Labor’s Citizenship Committee, the Miami Citizen promoted workers’ rights and labor interests. It claimed to be the “Only Labor Paper in Dade County” and was the most widely distributed labor newspaper in the city. In 1949, the newspaper added ‘labor’ to its name and became the Miami Labor Citizen. In 1956, it dropped ‘Miami’ from its name, becoming the Labor Citizen, to reflect its broadening geographic scope.

From its office in downtown Miami, the Citizen published a weekly four-page newspaper every Thursday. In 1952, the newspaper expanded to eight pages per issue. Labor Day special editions were much longer, some as many as sixty-eight pages. The newspaper benefitted from long running and dedicated publishers and editors. The first publishers in 1918 were E. K. Dahlman, J. M. Sanderson, and Walter Hoyt. Later publishers included Gordon H. Russell (?–May 1938), Walter Hoyt (1938–1947), the Estate of Walter Hoyt (1948), Charles F. Towle (1948–1957), The Labor Press, Inc. (1958), and Alpha Publications (1959–?). Named editors included Stephen C. Singleton, who was the first…

Genres

News

Published in

Miami, Florida, 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

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