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The Colored Alabamian Co. The Colored Alabamian [vol 8. No. 7 (April 11, 1914)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC10120 Author/Creator: The Colored Alabamian Co. Place Written: Montgomery, Alabama Type: Newspaper Date: April 11, 1914 Pagination: 4 p. ; Order a Copy

One issue of the newspaper "The Colored Alabamian." Volume VIII. Number 7. dated April 11, 1914 . Published in Montgomery, Alabama by the Colored Alabamian Co. The Colored Alabamian was published weekly in Montgomery from 1907 to 1916. This issue has news of the first annual debate between students at Selma University and Tuskegee Institute as well as an article about educator John C. Leftwich upsetting African Americans in Cleveland by endorsing segregation in a talk at a white church. There are also over 50 advertisements from Black-owned business and notice of a revival at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

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