Colored Citizen (Vicksburg)
The Colored Citizen was the first
Publication and demise
The Colored Citizen was founded in 1867 by
The precise contents of the Colored Citizen are unknown since no surviving copies have been located, but the paper likely contained four pages, held advertisements, sold annual subscriptions for between $1 and $2,[B][6] and may have been published weekly.[2] It was Republican in political orientation.[7] The paper likely died within a few months of its founding, though the precise dates of its dissolution are not known.[8]
It was succeeded by the Citizen of Canton in 1869 and the Field Hand of Jackson around 1870.[9] An unrelated paper also called the Colored Citizen was published in Jackson,[10] founded in 1868.[11] That paper was established by reverend James D. Lynch and politician James J. Spelman.[1]
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ The Natchez Circular was also an African American periodical in Mississippi, established and dissolved in 1865. Unlike the Colored Citizen, the Natchez Circular was not a bona fide newspaper, but instead a type of circular publication.[2]
- ^ Thompson 1993, p. 3, gives the annual subscription as between $1 and $2, but Mayson 1867, p. 2, gives it as "$3.50 per annum, payable in advance".
Citations
- ^ a b c Thompson 1983, p. 178.
- ^ a b Thompson 2001, p. 149.
- ^ Thompson 1993, p. 2.
- ^ Mayson 1867, p. 2.
- ^ Daily Clarion 1867, p. 2.
- ^ Thompson 1993, pp. 2–4.
- ^ Garner 1901, p. 326.
- ^ Thompson 1993, pp. 3–4.
- ^ McMillen 1990, p. 173.
- ^ Thompson 1983, pp. 178, 198.
- ^ Thompson 1993, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Garner, James Wilford (1901). Reconstruction in Mississippi. The Macmillan Company.
- Mayson, Henry (May 7, 1867). "Prospectus of the Vicksburg Colored Citizen". Vicksburg Herald. p. 2.
- McMillen, Neil R. (1990). Dark journey: Black Mississippians in the age of Jim Crow. ISBN 9780252061561.
- Thompson, Julius Eric (1983). "Mississippi". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The black press in the South, 1865–1979. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies. ISBN 9780313222443.
- ——— (1993). The black press in Mississippi, 1865–1986. ISBN 9780813011745.
- ——— (2001). Black life in Mississippi: Essays on political, social, and cultural studies in a Deep South state. ISBN 9780761819226.
- "[Untitled]". Daily Clarion. May 9, 1867. p. 2.