Boston Chronicle (1915–1966 newspaper)
The Boston Chronicle (1915–1966) was a newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2] It was founded by immigrants from the Caribbean and advocated for civil rights and against colonialism.[3]
Launched by immigrants from Jamaica, it promoted itself with the motto "Fearless and Uncompromising – Advocate of Justice, Rights, and Opportunities".[4] In addition to boxing and baseball in the United States, its sports pages covered cricket games in parts of the British Empire.[4]
It covered the Elaine massacre in Arkansas.
In 1929, the New York Age reprinted its coverage of biologist Ernest E. Just.[5]
Thaddeus Kitchener, Alfred Haughton, Uriah Murray, and William Harrison were involved with the paper.[4] Kitchener was the first "student of color" to graduate with a law degree from Suffolk Law (1913). Born in Jamaica, he was living in Roxbury by 1908.[6] A scholarship is named for him.[7] Houghton and Harrison were its editors. It had a rivalry with the Boston Guardian.[8] In 2023, the Suffolk University Archives made available digital versions of the paper from 1932–1960.
Like the Amsterdam News, it reported on issues facing Blacks.[9]
Square Deal Publishing Company, its publisher, launched the Hartford-Springfield Chronicle in 1940. The Hartford Chronicle and Connecticut Chronicle succeeded it.[10] The publishing company also launched the Providence Chronicle in Rhode Island in 1939. It lasted until 1957.[11] William Wiley edited it.
Brothers from the Hayes family in Roxbury worked at the paper.[12]
See also
[edit | edit source]- List of African American newspapers in Massachusetts
- West Indian Americans
- Monroe Trotter, founder of the Boston Guardian
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