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[[File:Wide-Awake.jpg|right|thumb|275px|''Wide-Awake'' (February 28, 1900)]] | |||
'''''Wide-Awake''''' was a black-owned [[List of newspapers|weekly newspaper]] published from [[1888]] to at least [[1914]]. [[L. H. Harrison]], who worked as a porter at the [[Bessemer Depot]], was the editor and publisher. The paper's offices and press were located at 1811½ [[3rd Avenue North]]. The company also solicited job printing work. | '''''Wide-Awake''''' was a black-owned [[List of newspapers|weekly newspaper]] published from [[1888]] to at least [[1914]]. [[L. H. Harrison]], who worked as a porter at the [[Bessemer Depot]], was the editor and publisher. The paper's offices and press were located at 1811½ [[3rd Avenue North]]. The company also solicited job printing work. | ||
Revision as of 15:57, 30 March 2019
Wide-Awake was a black-owned weekly newspaper published from 1888 to at least 1914. L. H. Harrison, who worked as a porter at the Bessemer Depot, was the editor and publisher. The paper's offices and press were located at 1811½ 3rd Avenue North. The company also solicited job printing work.
The Republican-leaning paper's name referred to the "Wide Awakes", a paramilitary youth movement that grew in tandem with Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential campaign. The paper's slogan, displayed on its masthead, was"Find a Way or Make One, for Marching Must be Done," paraphrasing a saying attributed to Hannibal before he crossed the Alps.