El Tucsonense (Tucson, Ariz.)

• 1915–1957
• Newspaper

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

4,815 issues from 1915 to 1957, published in Tucson, Arizona, digitised for Chronicling America.

Published from 1915 until the early 1960s, El Tucsonense was one of the most influential and longest-running Spanish-language newspapers in Tucson, Arizona, and cultivated a strong reputation in the Mexican and Mexican American community in Southern Arizona. The paper was founded by Francisco S. Moreno, who had worked as a printer at other Tucson newspapers. Moreno, from Sonora, Mexico, was involved in community organizations, such as serving as president of the mutual aid society, Sociedad Mutualista Porfirio Díaz. When Moreno died in 1929, his wife Rosa Elias de Moreno became owner of El Tucsonense. Over the years, the couple’s sons managed the paper with different editors, including Ricardo Fierro, who edited the paper for almost thirty years.

In its inaugural issue, El Tucsonense expressed its goals, in part: “Laboraremos por el mejoramiento de nuestra raza…” (“We will work for the improvement of our race…”). The paper remained “ostensibly dedicated to promoting the Mexican American middle class and furthering its business interests,” and was “noteworthy for developing a sense of Americanism among the Mexico-origin population within the United States” (Nicolas Kanellos, Hispanic Periodicals in the United States, Origins to 1960). Thomas Sheridan wrote in Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson that El Tucsonense was conservative in tone and was “the voice of the city’s Mexican businessmen, who provided most of its advertisements.”

Published for most of the…

Genres

News

Published in

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Language

Spanish

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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