Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Founded | 1927 |
City | Wilmington, North Carolina |
Website | wilmingtonjournal |
The Wilmington Journal is a newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is North Carolina's oldest existing newspaper for African Americans. [1] [2] R. S. Jervay established the paper in 1927. It continued under his son Thomas C. Jervay Sr. [3]
It succeeded the Daily Record that was destroyed in the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. [4] It was established in 1927. [5] Fundraising efforts in 2021 helped save the newspaper's building at 412 South 7th Street. [5]
Mary Alice Thatch served as editor and covered the Wilmington 10. [4]