Boston Chronicle (1915–1966 newspaper)

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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]

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]

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  1. ^ "Boston Chronicle (Boston, Mass.) 1915-1966". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  2. ^ Perry, Jeffrey B. (December 8, 2020). "15 Boston Chronicle, Board of Ed, and the New Negro (January– June 1924)". Hubert Harrison. Columbia University Press. pp. 562–598. doi:10.7312/perr18262-017. ISBN 978-0-231-55242-4 – via www.degruyter.com.
  3. ^ https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article-abstract/57/2/268/7239313?redirectedFrom=fulltext
  4. ^ a b c Johnson, Violet M. (December 6, 2006). The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11238-9 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "summary of Boston Chronicle article on status of scholarly prominance mentions Alain Locke". The New York Age. March 9, 1929. p. 4 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Devlin, Emily. "Suffolk Firsts: Black History Month".
  7. ^ "HBCU Scholarship - Suffolk University". www.suffolk.edu.
  8. ^ "The Black Press". academics.wellesley.edu.
  9. ^ Johnson, Violet M. Showers (2008). ""What, Then, Is the African American?" African and Afro-Caribbean Identities in Black America". Journal of American Ethnic History. 28 (1): 77–103. doi:10.2307/27501883. JSTOR 27501883. S2CID 254480744 – via JSTOR.
  10. ^ "Hartford-Springfield Chronicle (Springfield, Mass.) 1940-194?". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  11. ^ "Providence Chronicle (Providence, R.I.) 1939-1957". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  12. ^ Miller, Yawu (August 28, 2019). "Haynes family: a slice of Roxbury history". The Bay State Banner.
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