930 West Walnut Street (now West Muhammad Ali Boulevard) Louisville, Kentucky
The Louisville Leader was a weekly newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky.
History
The Louisville Leader was a weekly African American newspaper founded by I. Willis Cole in November 1917.[2] By the 1930s, Cole employed twenty people and had a circulation reaching 20,000.[2]
Cole died in February 1950 and his wife tried to continue to publish the newspaper until it eventually stopped that September.[2]
In 1954, the Louisville Defender had called the Leader "one of the largest Negro newspaper organizations" in Louisville.[2]
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References
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY: The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Co., (February 17, 2009), p B3.
Kleber, John E.: The Encyclopedia of Louisville, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, (2001) p. 557. ISBN 0813121000
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