''The Sunday Morning Star'', also commonly known as ''The Sunday Star'',
was a weekly newspaper in
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...
from 1881 to 1954. It carried three official titles in its 74 years: ''The Sunday Morning Star'' from 1881 to 1949,
''The Sunday Star'' from 1949 to 1953,
and the ''Wilmington Sunday Star'' from 1953 to 1954.
Although catering primarily to Wilmington's white community, ''The Sunday Morning Star'' played an important role in providing a column of news from and about the city's African American community, which filled the niche left vacant by Wilmington's frequent lack of an
African-American newspaper
African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are newspaper, news publications in the United States serving African-American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-Americ ...
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References
Newspapers published in Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware
New Castle County, Delaware
Weekly newspapers published in the United States
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