Waco Messenger in PQC Archives

African American newspapers have always made a distinctive contribution to free speech in our country, offering expanded coverage and alternative viewpoints beyond those of the mainstream media. The Paul Quinn College Archives has forty-nine volumes of the estimated sixty-year run of one such paper, the Waco Messenger, which was published c. 1932-1992. Our collection covers the years 1933-1986 with only a few significant gaps (1936, 1956-1958, and 1979). The only other known collection of this newspaper is at the Center for American History at the University of Texas-Austin, which has only the years 1940-1946. The close association of this newspaper to Paul Quinn College is evident; for many years the Messenger actually published lists of faculty in the fall and of graduating seniors in the spring. If anyone has copies of this newspaper that could help fill in the gaps listed above, let us know!