[2] The paper had a tagline of "Clean - Constructive - Conservative", and promoted itself with the line "Covers Alabama Like the Dew".
[3] It reported on a legal case challenging racial segregation at the University of Alabama.
[4] It reported on Montgomery bus boycott activities, the NAACP being ruled "foreign", and on Martin Luther King Jr.'s organizing.
[5] On October 31, 1958 the paper reported on Martin Luther King Jr.'s return to Montgomery.
[8] In 1944, following the rape of Recy Taylor, Jackson worked with Eugene Gordon of the Daily Worker to organize a meeting with governor Chauncey Sparks, who committed to hold an investigation.