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Colored Citizen (Vicksburg)

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in 1867, and it probably died by 1868. According to Mayson, the paper sought racial equality and the elimination of racial discrimination, including in school funding schemes. No surviving copies of the paper have been located.
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calling for equal educational opportunities for black and white children, the right for black men to hold public office, and the eradication of legally-enforced racial discrimination. A note attached to the prospectus in the
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are unknown since no surviving copies have been located, but the paper likely contained four pages, held advertisements, sold annual subscriptions for between $ 1 and $ 2, and may have been
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in political orientation. The paper likely died within a few months of its founding, though the precise dates of its dissolution are not known.
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says it will be published "by an intelligent colored man" in opposition to black political "antagonism".
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was also an African American periodical in Mississippi, established and dissolved in 1865. Unlike the
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Black life in Mississippi: Essays on political, social, and cultural studies in a Deep South state
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was published in Jackson, founded in 1868. That paper was established by reverend
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Thompson, Julius Eric (1983). "Mississippi". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.).
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was not a bona fide newspaper, but instead a type of circular publication.
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Dark journey: Black Mississippians in the age of Jim Crow
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Index

African American newspaper
Mississippi
Henry Mayson
Henry Mayson
Vicksburg
Mississippi
African American newspaper in the state
Vicksburg Herald
Daily Clarion
published weekly
Republican
Citizen
Canton
Field Hand
Jackson
Colored Citizen
James D. Lynch
James J. Spelman
Thompson 1993
Mayson 1867



Thompson 1983


Thompson 2001
Thompson 1993
Mayson 1867
Daily Clarion 1867

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