The Southwestern Christian Advocate (1877–1929)[1] was an American newspaper published by the
Methodist Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana and distributed in the
Southern United States. It was an African American newspaper that was equally read by the White community, this was more so than any other African American newspaper in the Union.[2]
History
The Advocate was an official publication of the
Methodist Episcopal Church,[3] and was printed in
New Orleans,
Louisiana. The publication targeted a
Methodist, and served both an African-American and White audience.[2] It featured a "Lost Friends" section for people searching for loved ones lost to slavery.[4] The newspaper was instrumental in organizing
Booker T. Washington's tour of Louisiana in 1915.[5]
^Bennett, James B. (21 January 2018). ""Until This Curse of Polygamy Is Wiped Out": Black Methodists, White Mormons, and Constructions of Racial Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century". Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. 21 (2): 167–194.
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10.1525/rac.2011.21.2.167.
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^Vincent, Charles (1981). "Booker T. Washington's Tour of Louisiana, April, 1915". The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 22 (2): 189–98.
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