The Brooksville Sun (Brooksville, Fla.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,130 issues from 1932 to 1959, published in Brooksville, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Brooksville Sun was a weekly newspaper first published in Brooksville, Florida, on March 4, 1932. The Sun ceased publication on April 16, 1959, when it was merged with its rival, the Brooksville Journal, and renamed the Brooksville Sun-Journal.
S.D. Lovett, the Sun’s first publisher and editor, was from Dunnellon, Florida, where he also published the Dunnellon Sun. His wife contributed significantly to the newspaper. The Sun’s first associate editor, Algernon Keathley, was a “well-known newspaperman” as well as Brooksville’s postmaster for twenty years and a bank director, two-time superintendent of public instruction, and candidate for state senator. Keathley used his editorials to publicly denounce corrupt city and county officials. In 1933 a noose was left above the door of the Sun’s office in response to one of Keathley’s editorials concerning the murder of a local attorney investigating charges of corruption, violence, and lawlessness by the county sheriff. Keathley was often in direct opposition to E.R. Russell, editor of the Brooksville Journal and political rival on Brooksville’s Board of Public Instruction.
In 1937 the Lovetts took a hiatus from the Sun to spend two years in California. During this time, Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Miller took over the paper. The Lovetts returned by January 1939 and edited and published the newspaper until October 1946. In 1939 the paper also had a staff photographer, Carl F. Graff.
Bernard Guthrie published the Sun from 1946 until…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Brooksville, 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
- Library of Congress