The True Southerner

Founded in 1865, the paper was moved to Norfolk early the next year, where Joseph T. Wilson served as its editor.

The paper's offices and press were destroyed by a white mob in early 1866, and it ceased publication shortly thereafter.

[3] It was sponsored by the Union League and in Hampton vocally criticized a white mob that seriously injured several Black people.

[7] As editor, Wilson vocally criticized Andrew Johnson's decision to veto creation of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

These actions angered some living in Norfolk, and just two months after the move the paper's press was destroyed by a mob.