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Newspaper The Arizona Times (Tucson, Ariz.) 1926-19??

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About The Arizona Times (Tucson, Ariz.) 1926-19??

The weekly Arizona Times began publication in Tucson, Arizona, in 1926, stating it was “an independent newspaper devoted to the interests of the Negro population of Arizona.” In October 1926, the Times masthead added the slogan, “Interest, Character, Substance.” Published by the Arizona Times Company, the paper’s editor was Louis J. Washington and its business manager Chauncey Townsend. Townsend also contributed book reviews to the newspaper, including reviewing books of poems by Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.

As a member of four press associations – the Associated Negro Press, Preston News Service, Exchange Press, and NAACP Press Service – the Times carried national news on issues of concern to its readers, particularly reports of discrimination against African Americans. With correspondents from around Arizona in Douglas, Flagstaff, Fort Huachuca, Nogales, and Phoenix, the Times also included both local and statewide news. Editorials endorsed political candidates, such as re-election of a senator who supported anti-lynching laws (October 29, 1926) and re-election of Tucson’s mayor who delivered community improvements for African Americans in Tucson (December 10, 1926).

The December 3, 1926 issue reported on a school segregation case in Arizona, noting that the “superior court at Tombstone … flatly refused to allow [Black] children to attend the Douglas [Arizona] high school with white students.” Two weeks later, the newspaper’s editorial page spelled out its “Platform for Arizona,” including “1. Abolishment by legislation of the Jim Crow school system in Arizona. 2. Retention of the 25th Infantry and Tenth Cavalry [two segregated units of African American soldiers] at Douglas, Nogales and Fort Huachuca. 3. Opening of dormitories of all state schools to colored students. 4. A colored man in the legislature. 5. A telegraphic news service … for all colored papers. 5. A community social center for Tucson” (December 17, 1926).

At the end of 1926, the Times celebrated the Black press in a column that reflected on some of the news reported that year in papers like the Pittsburgh Courier, the Kansas City Call, the Baltimore Afro-American, and the Chicago Whip, concluding: “Gentlemen of the Negro Press! let us make 1927 a year of greater and larger performance” (December 24, 1926).

By June 1927, Townsend had moved to Indiana to edit the Sun and soon after, co-started the Gary Colored American. The last extant issue of Tucson’s Arizona Times was published on April 16, 1927.

Research provided by the University of Arizona Libraries.

Provided By: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ

About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Arizona Times (Tucson, Ariz.) 1926-19??

Dates of Publication

  • 1926-19??

Created / Published

  • Tucson, Ariz. : Arizona Times, Co.

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Arizona--Newspapers
  • -  Tucson (Ariz.)--Newspapers
  • -  Nogales (Ariz.)--Newspapers
  • -  Douglas (Ariz.)--Newspapers
  • -  Fort Huachuca (Ariz.)--Newspapers
  • -  Pima County (Ariz.)--Newspapers
  • -  African Americans
  • -  Arizona
  • -  Arizona--Douglas
  • -  Arizona--Fort Huachuca
  • -  Arizona--Nogales
  • -  Arizona--Pima County
  • -  Arizona--Tucson
  • -  United States--Arizona--Pima--Tucson

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Began in 1926.
  • -  "An independent newspaper devoted to the interests of the Negro population of Arizona."
  • -  Description based on: 1st year, no. 45 (Sept. 3, 1926).

Medium

  • v. : ill. ; 61 cm.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn00060009

OCLC Number

  • 43452777

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Chicago citation style:

The Arizona Times Tucson, Ariz. -19??. (Tucson, AZ), Jan. 1 1926. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn00060009/.

APA citation style:

(1926, January 1) The Arizona Times Tucson, Ariz. -19??. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn00060009/.

MLA citation style:

The Arizona Times Tucson, Ariz. -19??. (Tucson, AZ) 1 Jan. 1926. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn00060009/.