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L'Union was the first African-American newspaper in the Southern United States. [a] The newspaper was based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was published from 1862 to 1864. Articles in L'Union were written in the French language, with the newspaper's primary readership being free people of color in the New Orleans area, especially in the ...
5 sty 2011 · The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual.
You are standing in front of the L’Union and the New Orleans Tribune building, the birthplace of civil rights history in the Crescent City. Here, surrounded by the howling madness of the Civil War, these two radical journals condemned slavery and fought for the rights of all of African descent.
Louis Charles Roudanez (1823-1890) was an American physician and newspaper publisher. He cofounded L'Union (1862-1864), one of the first Black newspapers in the US South and the first bilingual (French-English) newspaper run by African Americans in the United States.
For the first time, the hitherto powerless and largely acquiescent black South had to be considered as a civil, societal and free-market economic force, and no Southern community provided as rich a laboratory in the search for a new racial and economic order than the city of New Orleans.
Researchers interested in New Orleans specific African American newspapers should consult the Louisiana Weekly, L’Union, Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans, and other New Orleans newspapers in our collection.
11 paź 2024 · The modern New Orleans Tribune, founded in 1985, continues the legacy of its historic predecessor, among the first Black daily newspapers in the United States. NOPL Newspaper Collection, 1787-1974 Most holdings are available on microfilm in the Louisiana Division reading room at NOPL.
