The Kansas City Sun
May 23, 1914 front page
Founded1908
Ceased publication1924
CityKansas City, Missouri

The Kansas City Sun was a newspaper for the African American community in Kansas City, Missouri.[1][2] A weekly, it was published from 1908 until 1924.

History

The Sun was one of the city's three weeklies serving the Black community in the city in the early 20th century along with Chester Arthur Franklin's The Call and William T. Washington's competing paper the Rising Son .[3] Nelson C. Crews (1866 - 1923)[4] purchased the paper in 1911 used its editorials for advocacy in their roles as community advocates during their ten-year ownership.[3] Of the other two weeklies, the Sun's rivalry with Rising Son was the strongest until Crews bought it out in 1914 following a decline in the Son's influence.[5] Crews and Charleton H. Tandy of the St. Louis Palladium newspaper testified at a hearing of the Missouri House of Representatives about a bill which would require the "separation of the races" on public transportation. Crews advocated for a Kansas City hospital staffed by African Americans that would serve the African American community in the segregated city.[6]

References

  1. ^ "HISTORY TODAY: The Kansas City Sun front page, June 20, 1904". Hot 103 Jamz!. June 20, 2017.
  2. ^ "The Kansas City Sun on Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b Coulter, Charles Edward (2006). Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6518-0.
  4. ^ "Biography of Nelson C. Crews (1866-1923) and James Crews (1859-1946), Civil Rights Pioneers | KC History". kchistory.org.
  5. ^ Schirmer, Sherry Lamb (2002-04-02). A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960. University of Missouri Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8262-6363-6.
  6. ^ "The Kansas City Sun (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924". Library of Congress.
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