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American newspaper published in Kansas

The American Citizen was a newspaper published in Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas from 1888 to 1909.

The paper urged community support for the Governor's Guard, an African American militia. It was one of the papers that noted writer and humorist Will Harris worked at.

It decried Republican Party leaders for removing African Americans from patronage jobs in 1899.

C. H. J. Taylor was its editor and a Populist Party candidate for state legislator in 1892. The paper described the burning at the stake of Fred Alexander as a warning African Americans needed to heed and unite or be exterminated.

References

  1. "African American newspapers - Kansas Historical Society". www.kshs.org.
  2. "The American Citizen (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909". Library of Congress.
  3. Cunningham, Roger D. (July 1, 2008). The Black Citizen-soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 9780826266507 – via Google Books.
  4. Sachsman, David B.; Rushing, S. Kittrell; Morris (Jr.), Roy (July 1, 2009). Seeking a Voice: Images of Race and Gender in the 19th Century Press. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557535085 – via Google Books.
  5. Cox, Thomas C. (March 1, 1999). Blacks in Topeka Kansas, 1865–1915: A Social History. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124222 – via Google Books.
  6. "The Negro and Populism: A Kansas Case Study". Ardent Media – via Google Books.
  7. Glasrud, Bruce A. (January 1, 2009). African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803226890 – via Google Books.
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