University Archives

Title: Elevator - April 7, 1865

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The writer gives a review of six local newspapers.

Description of file(s): two scanned, two columned, newspaper pages

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Elevator (1865 - 18??)

The writer responds to an idea expressed in the Morning Call newspaper that civil wars are based on racial issues, and that problems arise within a society that mixes races.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)

The writer lets his readers know that the Negro Testimony Bill (resulting from petitions they had gathered) did not pass the state Senate. He urges them not to give up hope, and assures them the fight for this right will continue.

Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)

Title: Pacific Appeal - November 15, 1862

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)

The writer offers an article published in another newspaper as an example of the way fear, hatred and prejudice are spreading through New York as the effective date of the Emancipation Proclamation draws near. The article relates stories of lustful crimes and violence already taking place that the city expects will increase with the official end of slavery.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page

Title: Pacific Appeal - November 21, 1863

Speaker or author: editor

Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)

The writer provides commentary on a legal suit brought against the Omnibus Railroad Company by an African American woman who was refused to a seat because of her race. She won the case; and the writer encourages others to take this type of action in similar situations.

Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper column