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Defunct weekly newspaper (1895?1931)
The Broad Ax
(1895?1931) was a weekly newspaper that began publication on August 31, 1895, originally in
Salt Lake City
by
Julius F. Taylor
. After a series of conflicts with the
Latter Day Saints
, Taylor relocated the newspaper to
Chicago
in 1899.
[1]
[2]
The Broad Ax
has been described as "the most controversial black newspaper in Chicago in the late nineteenth century," in some ways due to its criticism of
Booker T. Washington
[3]
and
Tuskegee Institute
. The paper covered
African American cinema
.
[4]
The last known surviving issue of
The Broad Ax
is dated September 10, 1927, but an obituary for Taylor published in
The Chicago Defender
states that the newspaper ceased publication in 1931.
[5]
Issues for years 1895?1922 have been digitized and are available for free online at
Chronicling America
and the University of Illinois Library's
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
.
[
citation needed
]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"The Broad Ax"
.
Chronicling America
. Library of Congress
. Retrieved
October 30,
2014
.
- ^
Sweeney, Michael S.
Julius F. Taylor and the Broad Ax of Salt Lake City (abstract)
Archived
2014-11-11 at
archive.today
,
Utah Historical Quarterly
, Vol. 77, no. 3 (Summer 2009).
- ^
Walker, Julia E.K. (1996). "The Promised Land: The Chicago Defender and the Black Press in Illinois: 1862-1970".
The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-198
: 21.
- ^
Field, Allyson Nadia (May 22, 2015).
Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
.
ISBN
9780822375555
.
- ^
"The Broad Ax"
.
Chronicling America
. Library of Congress
. Retrieved
July 31,
2015
.
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