The Louisville Leader was a weekly newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky , from 1917 to 1950.
4-834: The Louisville Leader was a weekly African American newspaper founded by I. Willis Cole in November 1917. By the 1930s, Cole employed twenty people and had a circulation reaching 20,000. Cole died in February 1950 and his wife tried to continue to publish the newspaper until it eventually stopped that September. In 1954, the Louisville Defender had called the Leader "one of the largest Negro newspaper organizations" in Louisville. View Jefferson County Sunday School Association for examples of how important this newspaper
8-543: A tabloid, and dropped to 10,000 in the 1960s when other major newspapers started hiring African Americans to cover civil right issues in their papers. Stanley's column, "Being Frank", became nationally syndicated in the 1940s. During the 1950s the paper covered issues related to integrated public accommodation, and in the 1950s and 1960s it covered open housing, equal job opportunities, and desegregated schools. After Stanley's death in 1974, his wife and sons became co-publishers. Circulation dropped to 2,600 weekly by 1985, and
12-601: Was founded in 1933 by Alvin H. Bowman of Louisville and John Sengstacke of Chicago, as an affiliate of the Chicago Defender . It joined The Louisville Leader and Louisville News as African-American newspapers in the city. Frank L. Stanley Sr. bought Sengstacke's share in 1936, and published the paper for the next 37 years. By 1942, the newspaper had reached its target circulation of 15,000. The paper became profitable after purchasing its own printing press in 1956. Circulation dipped in 1953 when it became
16-481: Was in connecting various organizations and keeping everyone aware of local civil rights activities. This article about a Kentucky newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Louisville -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Louisville Defender Louisville Defender is a weekly newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky . Louisville Defender
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