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Front page of The Voice, Lincoln, Neb., October 11, 1946

Migration and after

The Voice

Lincoln, Neb. · October 11, 1946

The first issue ever printed

Volume one, number one, the year after the war ended: “dedicated to the promotion of the cultural, social and spiritual life of a great people.” Lincoln, Nebraska had a Black population in the low thousands and it had its own paper, leading with a local man at the National Urban League conference.

Published
Lincoln, Neb.
Run
1946–1950s
This issue
October 11, 1946
Catalog no.
2019270505

Read it at the Library of Congress

The scan opens at the Library of Congress, where you can zoom into the type and turn to the inside pages. Public domain.

This paper covered them

6

People on the Record whose citation was taken out of The Voice. The two collections are matched on the Library of Congress catalog number, not on the paper’s name — a name is not an identifier, and matching on one put the New-York Tribune in this archive the first time it was tried.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.1908–1972Langston Hughes1902–1967Ralph J. Bunche1903–1971Toussaint Louverturec.1743–1803Whitney M. Young Jr.1921–1971Benjamin Banneker1731–1806

Printing at the same time

1919–1999