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Iowa Bystander - Wikipedia

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Iowa Bystander
Fragments of first issue of newspaper published in Des Moines, Iowa, June 15, 1894
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Publisher	IPJ Media, L.L.C.
Editor	Jonathan R. Narcisse (deceased in 2018)
Founded	June 8, 1894
Ceased publication	2015
Headquarters	P.O. Box 98, Des Moines, Iowa 50301 United States
Website	http://iowabystander.com

The Iowa Bystander was an Iowa newspaper serving African Americans. It was founded in Des Moines on June 15, 1894,^[1] by I. E. Williamson, Billy Colson, and Jack Logan, and it is considered to be the oldest Black newspaper west of the Mississippi.^[2]^[3] The paper was first called Iowa State Bystander; the term "bystander" given by its editor, Charles Ruff, after a syndicated column "The Bystander's Notes" written by Albion W. Tourgée, a civil rights advocate who wrote for The Daily Inter Ocean.^[1] The name was changed to Bystander in 1916 by owner John L. Thompson, who published the paper from 1896-1922. Thompson traveled around the state seeking new subscribers, raising the circulation to 2,000 copies, and changed the paper to a 6-column 8-page layout.^[2]

In 1922, Thompson sold the newspaper to Lawrence Jones who, within 2 years, sold the paper to World War I veteran and founder of the National Bar Association, James B. Morris for $1,700. Morris changed the name of the paper to Iowa Bystander.^[1] Morris and the paper developed close ties with the NAACP and fought the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Iowa.^[4]

The Iowa Bystander was one of 20 papers represented at the first meeting of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, formed in 1940 by John H. Sengstacke, to support newspapers serving Black communities.^[5] Also that year, it was identified by Editor and Publisher as one of Iowa's four "leading Negro publications," along with the Tri City Observer (Davenport), the Iowa Observer (Des Moines), and the Sioux City Enterprise.^[6]

Notable contributors and editors

Eleanora E. Tate was news editor of the Iowa Bystander from 1966-1968^[7]
Jonathan Narcisse, who ran for governor of Iowa in 2010 and 2014, was owner from 1990 until his death in 2018.^[8] He had transitioned the paper into a digital-only format.
James B. Morris, founder of the National Bar Association, owned and ran the Iowa Bystander from 1922-1972
Robert V. Morris, grandson of James B. Morris and author of Black Faces of War: A Legacy of Honor from the American Revolution to Today, ran the paper from 1979-1983 while he was still a college student^[9]
Marie Ross, was news editor for the paper, and won two first-place awards from the National Federation of Press Women for her "Personal Touch" column.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Iowa Bystander". Library of Congress Chronicling America. July 6, 2018.
^ ^a ^b La Brie III, Henry G. (Spring 1974). "James B. Morris Sr. and the Iowa Bystander". The Annals of Iowa. 42 (4): 314–322. doi:10.17077/0003-4827.11203.
^ "The month is over, but Iowa black history still needs its storytellers". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
^ Iowa Public Television; Robert Morris (2016-08-17). "The Iowa Bystander". Iowa Pathways.
^ "NNPA History". NNPA. 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
^ "Editor and Publisher 1971-05-15: Vol 104 Iss 20". Duncan McIntosh. 15 May 1971.
^ "Eleanora E(laine) Tate". link.galegroup.com. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
^ "3 Mar 2018, A6 - The Des Moines Register at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
^ "The Iowa Bystander". IPTV. 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
^ "Iowa Press Woman Wins Writing Prize". Atlanta Daily World. June 21, 1951. ProQuest 490939293.

External links

Iowa Bystander at the Wayback Machine (archived February 3, 2017)
https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1971-05-15_104_20/page/34/mode/2up

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