Defunct weekly newspaper (1895–1931)
The Broad Ax Salt Lake City by Julius F. Taylor . After a series of conflicts with the Latter Day Saints , Taylor relocated the newspaper to Chicago in 1899.[ 1] [ 2] The Broad Ax has been described as "the most controversial black newspaper in Chicago in the late nineteenth century," in some ways due to its criticism of Booker T. Washington [ 3] Tuskegee Institute . The paper covered African American cinema .[ 4]
The last known surviving issue of The Broad Ax is dated September 10, 1927, but an obituary for Taylor published in The Chicago Defender [ 5]
Issues for years 1895–1922 have been digitized and are available for free online at Chronicling America and the University of Illinois Library's Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections .[citation needed
References
^ "The Broad Ax" . Chronicling America . Library of Congress. Retrieved October 30, 2014 .^ Sweeney, Michael S. Julius F. Taylor and the Broad Ax of Salt Lake City (abstract) Archived 2014-11-11 at archive.today , Utah Historical Quarterly , Vol. 77, no. 3 (Summer 2009).
^ Walker, Julia E.K. (1996). "The Promised Land: The Chicago Defender and the Black Press in Illinois: 1862-1970". The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-198 : 21. ^ Field, Allyson Nadia (May 22, 2015). Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity ISBN 9780822375555 ^ "The Broad Ax" . Chronicling America . Library of Congress. Retrieved July 31, 2015 .
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