''The McDowell Times'' was an
African American newspaper founded in
Keystone, West Virginia
Keystone is a city in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 176. Keystone is one of the few municipalities in West Virginia with an African-American majority, with 65 percent of the residents bei ...
, in 1904. It ceased publication in 1941. It was published by
M.T. Whittico & R.W. White. The newspaper came out weekly, and dealt with issues of concern to the African-American communities living in the coalfields of the area, including
Republican politics, labor issues, and the connection between race and class. The driving force behind the establishment of the paper was Matthew Thomas (M.T.) Whittico, the paper's editor. Whittico was born soon after the
Civil War, and graduated from
Lincoln University, an all-black college in
Pennsylvania. In 1904 he purchased a local newspaper after he moved to Keystone, and renamed it ''The McDowell Times''. The newspaper belonged to the
National Newspaper Publishers Association. The newspaper did well until Whittico's death in June 1939. Within two years of Whittico's death the paper closed.
See also
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Tyler Edward Hill
Tyler Edward Hill (April 23, 1883 - December 2, 1932), known as T. Edward Hill, was a leader in black politics in West Virginia during the early twentieth century coal boom that led many black Americans to migrate from the South to northern coalfi ...
References
Defunct African-American newspapers
Publications disestablished in 1941
Newspapers established in 1904
Defunct newspapers published in West Virginia
Keystone, West Virginia
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