Global InformationList of African American newspapers in Iowa information
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Iowa.
The first African American newspaper in Iowa was the Colored Advance of Corning, Iowa, founded in 1882.[1] It was followed the next year by the Des Moines Rising Son.[1] By far the longest-lasting, however, was the Iowa Bystander, which spanned more than a century.
During the peak period of African American newspaper founding in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the African American population in Iowa was less than 20,000.[2] As a result, the number of such papers established in Iowa is much lower than in some neighboring states such as Illinois.
A hotspot of African American newspaper publishing in the early 20th century was Buxton, a coal-mining town that no longer exists. Around eight African American newspapers were published there in the first decades of the 20th century.[3]
- ^ a b Jones 1996, p. 72.
- ^ Patterson 1987, p. 99.
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