The ''Tuskegee News'' is a weekly newspaper based in
Tuskegee, Alabama
Tuskegee () is a city in Macon County, Alabama, United States. It was founded and laid out in 1833 by General Thomas Simpson Woodward, a Creek War veteran under Andrew Jackson, and made the county seat that year. It was incorporated in 1843. ...
with a circulation of about 3,800.
The paper was established in 1865 by A. F. Henderson & Co.
The newspaper is currently owned by Gayle Davis, the widow of former owner and award-winning journalist, Paul Davis.
History
The Early Years
The ''Tuskegee News'' was started after the ''Southwestern Baptist'', a
Baptist
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only ( believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul c ...
paper in central and south Alabama, was ordered to be burned by men associated with
Wilson's Raid. The Union Army believed that the ''Baptist,'' along with a number of other religious papers, had exerted a radicalizing influence by combining religious, millennialist language with denunciations of Northern tyranny. The owners of the ''Baptist'', Rev. Samuel Henderson and
H. E. Taliaferro, were promised their production plant would be spared if no religious paper were to be published in Tuskegee. It was with the Baptist's plant that Fuller Henderson, Samuel Henderson's son, started the ''Tuskegee News''.
The ''News'' went through many editors in the early years, the most prominent of them being C. W. Hare. Hare was an established attorney and political figure in Macon County when he became editor of the ''News'' in 1895. In 1913, he became the president of the Screws Monument Association after publishing a suggestion that Alabama editors should honor the late
William Wallace Screws, a confederate soldier, Secretary of State for Alabama, and editor for the ''
Montgomery Advertiser
The ''Montgomery Advertiser'' is a daily newspaper and news website located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1829.
History
The newspaper began publication in 1829 as ''The Planter's Gazette.'' Its first editor was Moseley Baker. I ...
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1960 - Current
Over 100 years after its establishment, J. J. Johnson became the first black editor of the ''Tuskegee News''.
The original building housing the ''Tuskegee News'' burned down in 2004.
Awards
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External links
WebsiteNewspaper archive
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Newspapers published in Alabama