The Shreveport Sun is a historic newspaper serving Shreveport, Louisiana's African American community. Established in 1920, it is the oldest weekly newspaper for African Americans in Louisiana and became the largest weekly paper in North Louisiana.[1][2][3] It is published on Thursdays.[4] Louisiana Public Broadcasting aired a segment on the newspaper in its Folks series April 16, 1989. News and sports editor Andrew Harris was interviewed for it.[5]
It was founded and published by Melvin Lee Collins Sr.[6] He was a community leader[7] and high school principal. After his death in 1962, he was succeeded by his son Melvin Lee Collins Jr.,[8] then in 1983 his granddaughter Sonya Collins Landry.[9][10]
In February 1941 it reported on the game between Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute and white Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.[11] In 1958, the Sun's reporting as well as other newspaper accounts of NAACP and its Louisiana leader R. L. Williams was submitted in a legal filing accusing the group's ogleganizing of being illegal in the state.[12] The paper used the motto "Since 1920 Telling It Like It Is." It reported on beatings and arrests of African Americans without cause and accusing them of "resisting arrest". It also reported on displacement of African American educators who lost their positions with desegregation.[13]
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- ^ "Shreveport Sun". www.nsula.edu.
- ^ Johnson, Neil (1975-07-25). "Owner of Area's Largest Weekly Began as Newsboy". The Shreveport Journal. p. 22. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ^ Doyle, Kevin (1988-02-28). "The Sun". The Times. p. 67. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ^ "The Shreveport Sun". Louisiana Press Association. November 6, 2020.
- ^ "Shreveport Sun Newspaper (1989) : Louisiana Digital Media Archive". ladigitalmedia.org.
- ^ Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen (November 9, 2000). Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807862841 – via Google Books.
- ^ Plummer, Marguerite R.; Joiner, Gary D. (May 24, 2000). Historic Shreveport-Bossier: An Illustrated History of Shreveport and Bossier City. HPN Books. ISBN 9781893619081 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Negro Newspaper Publisher Here Dies at Age 79". The Shreveport Journal. 1962-06-20. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (July 18, 1983). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (August 1, 1983). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Aiello, Thomas (September 15, 2010). Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807138021 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court". May 24, 1832 – via Google Books.
- ^ McKnight, Ed Douglas (April 7, 2017). Place, Race, and Identity Formation: Autobiographical Intersections in a Curriculum Theorist's Daily Life. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317668473 – via Google Books.