The Huntsville Gazette, also known as the Weekly Gazette, was a newspaper for African Americans in Huntsville, Alabama that ran from 1879 or 1881-1894.[1][2] The Library of Congress has numerous editions in its collection.[3] Charles Hendley Jr. served as its editor.[4] He is buried at the Glenwood Cemetery in Huntsville.[5][6]
The paper was Republican Party aligned at a time when Democrats dominated Alabama and Southern politics in the post-Reconstruction era period of its publication.[2] The paper folded in December 1894.[1]
Hendley was born in December 1855. A profile of him is included in Irvine Garland Penn's 1894 book on the African American press, although little is known of his upbringing.[2][7] Henry C. Binford edited The Journal in Huntsville.[6]
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edit- ^ a b "Huntsville gazette. [volume]". National Endowment for the Humanities – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
- ^ a b c Beatty, Bess (1980). "Black Newspapers: Neglected Source for the "New South"". Negro History Bulletin. 43 (3): 60–63. ISSN 0028-2529.
- ^ "Libraries that Have It: Huntsville gazette. (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894". National Endowment for the Humanities – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
- ^ Steele, Mike (2014). "The Huntsville Gazette: The African American Perspective". The Undergraduate Historical Journal at UC Merced. 2 (1). doi:10.5070/H321025694.
- ^ "Glenwood Cemetery Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ^ a b "'Hidden Figures' no longer: Celebrating Huntsville's Black suffragists". City of Huntsville Blog. February 1, 2022.
- ^ Penn, Irvine Garland (June 21, 1891). "The Afro-American Press and Its Editors". Willey & Company – via Google Books.