(PERIODICALS) Issue of The Broad Ax a controversial Chicago

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(PERIODICALS.) Issue of "The Broad Ax," a controversial Chicago newspaper. Volume XI, no. 10. 8 pages, 22 x 16 inches, on one uncut folding sheet; wear and partial separations at folds, uneven toning. Chicago, 30 December 1905

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Julius F. Taylor began editing and publishing the Broad Ax in Salt Lake City in 1895, and relocated to Chicago in 1899. Unusually for a Black publisher at the time, he supported the Democratic Party, freely criticized the church and Booker T. Washington, and seemed to welcome controversy. Articles in this tenth anniversary edition include "The Future Destiny of the Afro-American and the Important Part He Will Play in the History of the World": a tribute to Frederick Douglass by Owen Meredith Waller; a detailed calendar of the most noteworthy events of 1905. Only two collections of the newspaper have been preserved in libraries per Chronicling America: at the Chicago Historical Society and the University of Illinois; none traced at auction.