Florida Times Union, "Star Edition" Viola Muse Transcription Zariah Grant Encoding and edition Joshua Smith Edition Laura Heffernan Edition Tru Leverette Edition Clayton McCarl

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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/54 USA Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Historical Society Viola Muse Collection (1959-18) Folder 8, item 4 A discussion of the "Star Edition" of the Florida Times-Union, for which the African American communities of Jacksonville were the target audience

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Florida <choice><orig>Times Union</orig><reg>Times-Union</reg></choice> "Star Edition<choice><orig/><reg>,</reg></choice>" edited by Edward A. Ellerbe, with office in the Times Union buildingBuilding, S. W.southwest Corcorner, Pearl and Adams Sts.Streets, serves the negroNegro population of Jacksonville and the Statestate of Florida. Carries notices and happening See happening. of church, club, fraternal and civic acti–vities. Without a morning daily, the negroesNegroes of Jacksonville would be deprived of much news of vital importance to the race, and its presence here has a very noted effect upon the negroNegro people. The Sunday edition, which usually carries one and one–half pages, is read with great enthusiasm by the community, as they realize the im–portance of knowing the happenings of the "Dayday" in a city which has grown to the proportions Jacksonville has in the past score of years. (4)