City
Title
Beginning
End
Frequency
Call numbers
Remarks
Aldrich
The Alabama Time-Piece [ 4]
The Alabama Timepiece
1895
1902?
Weekly
Published by Aldrich Publishing Company.
Edited by B.L. Lester.
Anniston / Birmingham (1909–1911)[ 5]
The Baptist Leader
1880s[ 5]
1900s[ 5]
Weekly[ 5]
Anniston
The Union Leader
1901
1903?
Weekly
Bay Minette
American Banner
1895?
?
Weekly, bimonthly in 1899
Published by Boykin, S.J.
Attested through at least 1902.
Belmont
News
1902
1903
Weekly
Bethel
The Southern Star
1890s[ 10]
1900s[ 10]
Weekly[ 10]
Birmingham / Montgomery (1877–1882)
Advance
1876
1882
Weekly
First Democratic African American newspaper in Alabama.
Edited by James A. Scott.
Birmingham
The Afro-American Labor Sentinel
1896
?
Twice monthly
Published by The Afro-American Labor and Protective Association.
Birmingham
The Birmingham American
1910s[ 13]
1900s[ 13]
Weekly[ 13]
Birmingham
Birmingham Blade
The Birmingham Blade [ 15]
1907
1909
Weekly
Published and edited by L.H. Harrison.
Birmingham
Broad Axe
1891
1895
Birmingham
By Any Means Necessary: (BAMN)
1985?
?
Irregular
Published by New Afrikan People’s Organization. Edited by Thandisizwe Chimurenga.
Attested through at least 1993.
Birmingham
Christian Era
Birmingham Era
1886
1887
Birmingham / Demopolis
The Christian Hope
1894?
?
Weekly
Edited by L.S. Steinbeck.
Attested through at least 1902.
Birmingham
Birmingham Free Speech
1901
?
Weekly
Published by Francis P. McAlpin.
Birmingham
Hot Shots
1896[ 21]
1900s[ 21]
Irregular[ 21]
Birmingham
Birmingham Mirror [ 23]
The Birmingham Mirror
1939?
?
Weekly
Published by J. Howard Williamson.
Attested through at least 1974.
Birmingham
Negro American [ 25]
The Negro American
American Citizen (1888–)
1886
1891?
Weekly
Edited by R.C.O. Benjamin from 1886 to 1887, when threats of white violence forced him to leave. Subsequent editors included J.W. White, Albert Boyd, and A.N. Jackson.
"The most outspoken black paper in Birmingham".
Birmingham
The New Era Banner
1918[ 28] or 1919
?
Weekly
Birmingham
The Pleiades
1888[ 29]
?[ 29]
Weekly[ 29]
Birmingham
The Birmingham Reporter
1900?
?
Weekly
Published by the Colored Masonic Temple.
Attested through at least 1928.
Edited by Oscar W. Adams Sr. from 1907 to 1928.
Birmingham
The Birmingham Reporter
Birmingham Eagle Reporter
1915?
1930s[ 31]
Weekly
"Official organ of the Masons, Eastern Stars, and Knights of Pythias of Alabama and Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World."[ 31]
Birmingham
The Times Plain Dealer
1910s[ 33]
1900s[ 33]
Weekly[ 33]
Attested through at least 1921.[ 33]
Birmingham
The Birmingham Times
1964
current
Weekly
Birmingham
The Birmingham Truth
1902[ 36]
1900s[ 35]
Weekly[ 35]
Birmingham
The Truth
1903[ 37]
1900s[ 37]
Weekly[ 37]
Attested through at least 1905.[ 37]
Published by Tuggle Printing Company.[ 37]
Birmingham
The Voice of the People
Weekly Voice (1916–1917)[ 38]
1913?
1920s[ 38]
Weekly
Published by E.W. Howell.
Birmingham
The Alabama Voice
1946
?
Bimonthly newspaper
Birmingham
Weekly Pilot
1883[ 41]
?[ 41]
Weekly[ 41]
Edited by J.H. Thomason. Published by Pilot Publishing Company.[ 41]
Birmingham
The Weekly Review
1934?
?
Weekly
Published and edited by Robert Durr.
Birmingham
Wide Awake Bulletin (1880s–1890s)[ 43]
Wide-Awake (1890s–)[ 44]
Birmingham Wide-Awake (1906–)[ 45]
1887[ 43] or 1889?
1890s[ 43]
Weekly[ 43]
Wide-Awake Bulletin :
Wide-Awake :
Birmingham Wide-Awake :
Birmingham
The Workmen's Chronicle [ 48]
The Workmens Chronicle
1917
?
Weekly
"Issued under the auspices of the Afro-American Sociological Congress."[ 48]
Birmingham
Birmingham World
1930
1996[ 49]
Weekly, twice weekly from 1940 to 1969[ 49]
Founded by W.A. Scott. Published by Joe N. Dickson & Associates.
Decatur
The Guardian
1910[ 51]
1900s[ 51]
Monthly newspaper[ 51]
Attested through at least 1914.[ 51]
Decatur
Speakin' Out Weekly News [ 52]
Speakin’ Out News
1980[ 54]
current
Weekly[ 54]
Dothan
Southern Star
1916
?
Weekly
Published by M.S. Brown. Edited by M.J. Adams from 1918 to 1919.
Dothan
The Voice Of The Negro [ 57]
Voice of the Negro
1912?
?
Weekly
Attested through at least 1915.[ 57]
Epes
The Sumter Enterprise
1907
?
Weekly
Published and edited by A.G. Idrell.
Eufaula
Vindicator
1889
?
Eutaw
Greene County Democrat
?
current
Weekly[ 60]
Eutaw
Western Guide
1905
1909
Weekly
Fayette
Watchman
1902
1903
Weekly
Florence
The Shoals News Leader
1979?
?
Weekly
Published by Reginald Liner.
Florence
The Watcher
1888
1800s[ 62]
Weekly
Suspended publication in 1889.[ 62]
Georgiana
The Temple Star
1916?
?
Twice monthly
Girard
Eastern Sunlight
1901
1914
Weekly
Grove Hill
Grove Hill Herald
1800s[ 65]
1850s[ 65]
Weekly[ 65]
Hayneville / Montgomery
The Republican Sentinel and Hayneville Times
1878
1878
Weekly[ 68]
Huntsville
Huntsville Gazette
1879
1894
Weekly
Edited by Charles Hendley, Jr.
"[T]he most financially successful and enduring black newspaper in Alabama before 1900."
Huntsville
The Herald
1878
1884
Weekly[ 71]
Edited by W.H. Councill.[ 71]
Huntsville
The Huntsville Journal
1895[ 72]
1897[ 72]
Weekly[ 72]
Huntsville
The Journal
1897[ 74]
1912
Weekly[ 74]
Edited by H.C. Binford from 1897 to 1911, and then by J.A. Binford.[ 74]
Huntsville
The Huntsville Mirror
1935?
?
Weekly
Edited by L.C. Jamar.[ 76]
Huntsville
The Huntsville Star
1900
?
Weekly
Edited by Richard C. Hancock.
Huntsville
The Weekly News
1968
1980s[ 78]
Weekly or bimonthly[ 78]
Huntsville
The Weekly News
1900s[ 78]
1900s[ 78]
Weekly[ 78]
Attested from at least 1931.[ 78]
Kempsville
1800s[ 81]
1910s[ 80]
Twice monthly[ 80]
Lovan
The Eagle
1880s[ 81]
1900s[ 81]
Twice monthly[ 81]
Marion
The Journal Reporter
1870s[ 82]
?[ 82]
Weekly[ 82]
Attested through at least 1881.[ 82]
Mobile
Ace
1975
?
Weekly
Edited by William Shirley and Arthur Johnson Jr.
Attested through at least 1979.
Mobile
Mobile Beacon [ 84]
The Mobile Beacon & Alabama Citizen [ 85]
The Mobile Beacon and Alabama Citizen
1943
current
Weekly
Published by Lancie M. Thomas.
Conflicting reports of closure in 2019.[ 87]
Mobile
Gazette
1883
1884
Twice weekly, then weekly (1882–1884)
Mobile
Herald
1871
1872
"[E]stablished in August 1871 to defend the Turner-Spencer faction of the party from attacks by the Mobile Republican ."
Mobile
Methodist Vindicator
1888
1889
Mobile
The Nationalist
1865
1869
Triweekly[ 88]
First African American newspaper in Alabama.
Owned and managed by African Americans. Edited in 1865 by John Silsby, and from 1866 to 1869 by Albert Griffin, "two white carpetbaggers ".
Mobile
The New Times
1981[ 90]
current[ 90]
Weekly[ 90]
Mobile
The Press Forum Sun
1900s[ 91]
1900s[ 91]
Weekly[ 91]
Mobile
The Press-Forum Weekly
1929
1941
Weekly
Mobile
The Mobile Republican
1870
1872?
Weekly; daily in 1870
Initially a daily, purchased and turned into a weekly by Philip Joseph later in 1870. James Shaw became editor and publisher in 1871.
"[P]ossibly the first in the state to be edited by an Afro-American."
Mobile
The Southern Watchman
1899
1904
Weekly[ 96]
Edited by Anderson N. McEwen.[ 96]
Mobile
The Mobile Watchman
Watchman
1873
1874
Weekly
Mobile
The Mobile Weekly Advocate
1911
?
Weekly
Attested through at least 1958.
Mobile
The Mobile Weekly Press
1896?
1929
Weekly
Montgomery
The Advance
1877?
1880s[ 101]
Weekly
Published by James A. Scott.
Montgomery
The Alabama Enterprise
1885?
?
Weekly
Attested from 1886.[ 104]
Edited by Sam B. Davis.[ 104]
Montgomery
The Alabama Guide
1884
?
Monthly newspaper
Published and edited by M.G. Thomas.
Montgomery
Alabama Republican
1880
?
Weekly
Published and edited by Charles O. Harris.
Montgomery
Alabama Tribune
1951
1964?
Weekly
Published by E.G. Jackson.
Montgomery
The Montgomery Argus
1890
?
Weekly
Montgomery
The Colored Alabamian
1907
1916
Weekly
Montgomery
The Colored Citizen
1884[ 110]
1884[ 110]
Weekly[ 110]
Published by Brown Brothers.[ 110]
Montgomery
The Emancipator
1917[ 111]
1920s[ 111]
Weekly[ 111]
Edited by J. Edward McCall.[ 111]
Montgomery
The Montgomery Enterprise
1898
1900
Weekly
Montgomery
The Evening Appeal
1886?
?
Unknown
Montgomery
The Evening Appeal
1880s[ 114]
?[ 114]
Daily[ 114]
Published by Allred Bros.[ 114]
Montgomery
The Helping Hand
1907?
1910s[ 115]
Weekly
Published by Jackson A. Stokes.
Attested through at least 1912.[ 115]
Montgomery
The Herald
1886
1887
Weekly
Published by Jesse C. Duke , who was driven from the state by a lynch mob after writing an anti-lynching editorial in The Herald in 1887.
Montgomery
The Montgomery Mirror
1935?
?
Weekly
Montgomery
Montgomery-Tuskegee Times: The Alternative
The Montgomery-Tuskegee Times [ 121]
1979
2000s
Weekly
Montgomery
The Odd Fellows Journal
1885[ 122]
?[ 122]
Monthly newspaper[ 122]
Attested through at least October 1886.[ 122]
Montgomery
The Republican Sentinel
1872?
?
Weekly
Montgomery
The Southern Courier
1965
1968[ 124]
Weekly
Moved from Atlanta to Montgomery in September 1965.[ 124]
Montgomery
The Montgomery Times
1977
1979
Weekly
Montgomery
Voice of Action
1970
?
Weekly
Montgomery
Watchman
Negro Watchman (1874)
1873
1874
Montgomery
The Weekly Citizen
1884
?
Weekly
Numerous editors and publishers.
Montgomery
The Weekly News
1884
?
Weekly
Published by C.M. Brown, noted for his advocacy of black self-defense.
Montgomery
Montgomery Weekly Review
1936?
?
Weekly
Edited by William P. Smith.
Opelika
The People's Choice
1894
?
Weekly
Edited by John P. Lawrence.
Circulation of 300.
Patton Junction
The Patton Pointer
1897 or 1898
1904
Weekly
Selma
The Baptist Pioneer
1878 or 1879?
1886
Weekly or monthly[ 136]
Selma
The Selma Cyclone
1886[ 137]
1890s[ 137]
Weekly[ 137]
Edited by William J. Stevens from 1886 to 1887 and by John Mitchell Gee from 1887 to 1890.
Known for its conciliatory political stance.
Selma
Dallas Post
1884
1884
Edited by W.H. Mixon.
"[T]he first secular Negro news journal ever published in Dallas County."
Selma
The Independent
Southern Independent
1800s[ 139]
?[ 139]
Weekly[ 139]
Edited by Mansfield Bryant from 1886 to 1889.
Absorbed Selma Social Circle and Gospel Messenger in 1888.
Selma
Selma Record
1900
?
Weekly
Attested through at least 1902.
Selma
Selma Sentinel
1965
?
Weekly
Selma
Southern Christian Age
1898
?
Weekly
Edited by W.H. Mixon.
Attested through at least 1901.
Selma
Southern Christian Recorder
1888
1891
Slocomb
Ardis Times
1909
1911
Weekly
Talladega
Reporter and Watchtower
1873
1886?
Weekly
Published by T.J. Cross and M.H. Cruikshank.
Talladega
The Southern Sentinel
1877
1881? or 1886
Monthly during school year
Edited by Edward P. Lord from 1877 to 1879, and George N. Ellis from 1879 to 1881.
Tunnell Springs
Eagle
1888
1913
Tuscaloosa
Alabama Citizen [ 146]
The Alabama Citizen and the Tuscaloosa Weekly Review
1944? or 1947[ 146]
1947 or 1963[ 146]
Weekly
Published by James R. Greene.
Published in Mobile from October 1961 to September 1963.[ 146]
Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa Courier
1979?
?
Monthly newspaper
Published by Charles Steele Jr.
Tuscaloosa
Tuskaloosa Chronicle
1896
?
Weekly
Tuscumbia
The American Star
1901
1929?
Monthly
"[T]he leading black paper in northwest Alabama."
Edited by G.W. Trenholm.
Tuskegee
The Alabama Headlight
1900
1902?
Semimonthly
Published by Alabama Headlight.
Tuskegee
The Tuskegee Herald
1950
1958
Monthly newspaper
Published by Hal Fisher. Edited by Mrs. E.M. Washington.
Tuskegee
The Messenger
1905[ 153]
1900s[ 153]
Weekly[ 153]
Tuskegee
The Negro Farmer
1940[ 154]
?[ 154]
Monthly newspaper[ 154]
Tuskegee
The Tuskegee Progressive
1970?
1971
Weekly
Published by Joseph Ervin Morse.
Tuskegee
The Tuskegee Times
1974
1976
Weekly
Tuskegee
The Tuskegee Voice
1976
1977
Weekly
Published by J. Lowell Ware and edited by Rick Dunn.
Tuskegee
The Zion Church Worker: The Home Newspaper
1900
?
Monthly newspaper
Union Springs
The Union Springs Enterprise
1895
?
Weekly
Edited by B.F. Rollins, then by R.T. Timothy in September–October 1896.
Uniontown
The Negro Leader [ 160]
The Uniontown News
1900
1917
Weekly
Wetumpka
Observer
1910
1912
Weekly
Yantley
Racial Endeavors
1906
1907
Weekly