The American Citizen
American newspaper published in Kansas
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The American Citizen was a newspaper published in Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas from 1888 to 1909.[1][2]
The paper urged community support for the Governor's Guard, an African American militia.[3] It was one of the papers that noted writer and humorist Will Harris worked at.[4]
It decried Republican Party leaders for removing African Americans from patronage jobs in 1899.[5]
C. H. J. Taylor was its editor and a Populist Party candidate for state legislator in 1892.[6] The paper described the burning at the stake of Fred Alexander as a warning African Americans needed to heed and unite or be exterminated.[7]