Alabama_Tribune
The Alabama Tribune was a newspaper published in Montgomery, Alabama in the US. According to the Library of Congress' website it was established in the 1930s and ceased publication in the 1960s.[1] Newspapers.com has archives of the paper from 1946 to 1964.[2]
The paper had a tagline of "Clean - Constructive - Conservative", and promoted itself with the line "Covers Alabama Like the Dew".[3]
It reported on a legal case challenging racial segregation at the University of Alabama.[4] It reported on Montgomery bus boycott activities, the NAACP being ruled "foreign", and on Martin Luther King Jr.'s organizing.[5] On October 31, 1958 the paper reported on Martin Luther King Jr.'s return to Montgomery.[6] Editor Jackson wrote about wanting "first come, first served" treatment on buses.[7]
Jackson was an organizer of what became The Committee for Equal Justice. In 1938, Earnest W. Taggart wrote to him suggesting the Montgomery NAACP branch be revived.[8] In 1944, following the rape of Recy Taylor, Jackson worked with Eugene Gordon of the Daily Worker to organize a meeting with governor Chauncey Sparks, who committed to hold an investigation.[9]
The Montgomery Enterprise[10] and Montgomery-Tuskegee Times[11] were other newspapers for African Americans in Montgomery.
