Louisianian (newspaper)

He resigned as editor in 1872 to become the Louisiana state superintendent of education and was succeeded at the paper by Henry A. Corbin (1845–1878), who had attended college in Ohio.

Corbin died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 and was succeeded by George Thompson Ruby (1841–1882), a free-born black who worked in New England and Haiti as a correspondent for Boston abolitionist James Redpath’s Pine and Palm.

Recognizing the urgent need to educate black readers in politics, the Louisianian devoted special attention to coverage of the Louisiana state legislature and various Republican committees.

[1] The paper also reported on immigration to the South, African missions, the activities of black Masons, and New Orleans entertainment events.

[1] Paul Trevigne published Centennial History of the Louisiana Negro in the Louisianian to commemorate the 100th anniversary of American Independence in 1876.