Roanoke Tribune

The Roanoke Tribune is a weekly newspaper in Roanoke, Virginia.

The Roanoke Tribune
TypeWeekly newspaper[1]
Founder(s)Fleming E. Alexander.[1]
Founded1939 (1939)
LanguageAmerican English
Headquarters2318 Melrose Avenue Northwest
CityRoanoke, Virginia
CountryUnited States
OCLC number39072181
WebsiteOfficial website
Free online archivesChronicling America

History

Fleming Alexander founded the Roanoke Tribune newspaper in 1939 at 5 Gilmer Avenue, later moved to 312 Henry Street, and then to Melrose Avenue in Roanoke. As an African-American newspaper, it brought attention against the Jim Crow laws of Roanoke and Western Virginia, and championed black representation on Roanoke's public boards and better schools for the black children in the segregated South.[2] Beginning in 1950, the company began a weekly newspaper in Charlottesville, The Charlottesville Tribune, edited by T. J. Sellers, which ran for only a couple of years.

The Tribune took an early stand against segregation. The motto on the masthead proclaimed: "Only Negro newspaper published in South Western Virginia."[3] The newspaper has a printed purpose: "1) to promote self-esteem; 2) to encourage RESPECT for self and differences in others, and 3) to help create lasting vehicles through which diverse peoples can unite on some common basis."[4]

Later, because of poor health after a car crash in 1971, Fleming Alexander sold the Roanoke Tribune to his daughter, Claudia Alexander Whitworth.[5] The Roanoke Tribune celebrated its 75th anniversary on April 9, 2014.[6]

References
  1. "About The Roanoke tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 19??-current". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-18.
  2. Roanoke Times. Discover History & Heritage: Exploring the People and Places of Southwest Virginia. 2015. Issue 3 originally published with the copyrighted February 25, 2016 edition of The Roanoke Times. "Fleming E. Alexander". Page 51. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930723037
  3. The Tribune. Roanoke, Va: F.E. Alexander, 1940. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39072118
  4. Roanoke Tribune
  5. The Roanoke Tribune’s 70th Anniversary – Nikki Giovanni Video. April 26, 2009
  6. "The History of the Roanoke Tribune".

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