Inaugural Issue ofL'Union

ID: 5599 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. ~ Date: September 27, 1862

This file appears in: L’Union, the South’s First Black Newspaper and New Orleans Tribune, America’s First Black Daily Newspaper

This file appears in: L’Union, the South’s First Black Newspaper and New Orleans Tribune, America’s First Black Daily Newspaper

L’Union, the South’s First Black Newspaper and New Orleans Tribune, America’s First Black Daily Newspaper

By Mark Charles Roudané

You are standing in front of the L’Union and the New Orleans Tribune building, the birthplace of civil rights history in the Crescent City. Here, surrounded by the howling madness of the Civil War,…