The Nashville Globe was a black-owned and operated [1] newspaper serving the African-American community in Nashville, Tennessee. It was first published in 1906 during the boycott that followed segregation law imposed on the city's streetcars. [2] The paper was housed in the R.H. Boyd Building in a part of town that was vibrant with African-American entrepreneurial activity. [1] [3]
The Nashville Globe was financed by Richard H. Boyd who was secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board. [2] Following R.H. Boyd's death in 1922, his son, Henry A. Boyd, took over as the paper's editor. [1] The editors of the Globe, Henry A. Boyd and Joseph O. Battle, used the paper to encourage the support of black-owned businesses in Nashville, to speak out against racial segregation and injustice, and to advance African American education. [1]
In the 1930s, the Globe merged with the Nashville Independent, another weekly publication, to form the Nashville Globe and Independent. [1] The Globe was closed in 1960 after Henry A. Boyd's death.