The Alabama Tribune was a newspaper published in Montgomery, Alabama in the US. According to the Library of Congress' website it was established in the 1930s and ceased publication in the 1960s.[1] Newspapers.com has archives of the paper from 1946 to 1964.[2]

The paper had a tagline of "Clean - Constructive - Conservative", and promoted itself with the line "Covers Alabama Like the Dew".[3]

It reported on a legal case challenging racial segregation at the University of Alabama.[4] It reported on Montgomery bus boycott activities, the NAACP being ruled "foreign", and on Martin Luther King Jr.'s organizing.[5] On October 31, 1958 the paper reported on Martin Luther King Jr.'s return to Montgomery.[6] Editor Jackson wrote about wanting "first come, first served" treatment on buses.[7]

Jackson was an organizer of what became The Committee for Equal Justice. In 1938, Earnest W. Taggart wrote to him suggesting the Montgomery NAACP branch be revived.[8] In 1944, following the rape of Recy Taylor, Jackson worked with Eugene Gordon of the Daily Worker to organize a meeting with governor Chauncey Sparks, who committed to hold an investigation.[9]

The Montgomery Enterprise[10] and Montgomery-Tuskegee Times[11] were other newspapers for African Americans in Montgomery.

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References

  1. ↑ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Alabama tribune" – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
  2. ↑ "Alabama Tribune Archive". Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Alabama Tribune 13 Sep 1946, page 1". Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Alabama Tribune from Montgomery, Alabama". Newspapers.com. December 16, 1955.
  5. ↑ "Box 19 - Binder 08: June 1956, 1956 June 1 | Levi Watkins Learning Center". archivesspace.alasu.edu.
  6. ↑ "Statement Upon Return to Montgomery | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute". kinginstitute.stanford.edu.
  7. ↑ Thornton, J. Mills (September 25, 2002). "Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma". University of Alabama Press – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Niedermeier, Silvan (September 17, 2019). "The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955". UNC Press Books – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ McGuire, Danielle L. (2011). At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307389244.
  10. ↑ Jenkins, William; Noble, G. M. (January 26, 1900). "The Montgomery Enterprise. (Montgomery, Ala.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1900". The Portal to Texas History.
  11. ↑ "Montgomery-Tuskegee Times".


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