Southwestern Christian Advocate

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Southwestern Christian Advocate
Type	Weekly African-American^[1]
Publisher	Methodist Episcopal Church
Launched	1877; 147 years ago (1877)
Ceased publication	1929; 95 years ago (1929)
City	New Orleans, Louisiana
Country	United States
ISSN	2639-0124
OCLC number	10123905
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The Southwestern Christian Advocate (1877–1929)^[1] was an American newspaper published by the Methodist Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana and distributed in the Southern United States. It was an African American newspaper that was equally read by the White community, this was more so than any other African American newspaper in the Union.^[2]

History

The Advocate was an official publication of the Methodist Episcopal Church,^[3] and was printed in New Orleans, Louisiana. The publication targeted a Methodist, and served both an African-American and White audience.^[2] It featured a "Lost Friends" section for people searching for loved ones lost to slavery.^[4] The newspaper was instrumental in organizing Booker T. Washington's tour of Louisiana in 1915.^[5]

Editors of the Advocate included Joseph C. Hartzell (from c. 1877 to 1881), A. E. P. Albert (from 1879 to 1880),^[2] I. B. Scott, Hiram Rhodes Revels and Bishop Robert E. Jones from 1904 to 1920.^[6] The newspaper business manager was Matthew Simpson Davage from 1905 to 1915.^[7]

The Library of Congress has microfilm of the paper in its collection.^[8] Digitized volumes of the paper are accessible online in the Internet Archive.

References

^ ^a ^b "About Southwestern Christian advocate. [online resource] (New Orleans, LA) 1877-1929". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
^ ^a ^b ^c Penn, Irvine Garland (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Willey & Company. pp. 223, 226–227. ISBN 978-0-598-58268-3.
^ Bennett, James B. (21 January 2018). ""Until This Curse of Polygamy Is Wiped Out": Black Methodists, White Mormons, and Constructions of Racial Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century". Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. 21 (2): 167–194. doi:10.1525/rac.2011.21.2.167. JSTOR 10.1525/rac.2011.21.2.167.
^ "Lost Friends Exhibition - The Historic New Orleans Collection". www.hnoc.org.
^ Vincent, Charles (1981). "Booker T. Washington's Tour of Louisiana, April, 1915". The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 22 (2): 189–98. JSTOR 4232079.
^ Amistad Research Center (June 12, 2023). "Jones, Robert Elijah, 1872-1960". Amistad Research Center.
^ Vernon, Walter N. (December 1, 1994). "Davage, Matthew Simpson". Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). Retrieved 2023-03-29.
^ Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Southwestern Christian advocate. [microfilm reel]" – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.

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LCCN 2018203278, sn83026416, sn97016097
OCLC 10123905, 192107532, 9235542

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