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The Arizona Research Library is home to more than four million pages of historic state newspapers.
Last month, KJZZ honored Arizona on the 108th anniversary of its statehood with its Untold Arizona series. But the addition of the 48th state was far from the only story filling the pages of Arizona newspapers in 1912.
Through our Q&AZ reporting project, a listener asked us to explore those headlines. So I took a walk through the state archives to dig them up.
Sativa Peterson is the News Content Program Manager at the State of Arizona Research Library.
“I have over 4 million pages and there’s over 700 titles and growing because we’re still collecting,” Peterson said. “And they’re all published in Arizona.”
Three African American military newspapers are now on the Arizona Memory Project African American military newspapers from Fort Huachuca are now on the Arizona Memory Project. (Source: Sec. of State Hobbs office) By Shelby Trahan | February 11, 2021 at 11:32 AM MST - Updated February 11 at 11:32 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - From the 1920s through the 1940s, three infantry divisions out of Fort Huachuca in Arizona published newspapers to keep the troops and their families informed of the work they were doing on and off the battlefield.
According to a news release, the African American men comprised the 25th, 92nd, and 93rd Infantry Divisions and published the Bullet, the 93d Blue Helmet, and the 92d Buffalo.
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