Precinct Reporter

Title: Precinct Reporter
Description: The "Precinct Reporter" was founded by Art Townsend and Sam Martin in July 1965. Townsend and Martin understood the necessity for Black residents of the Inland Empire to have a newspaper that represented their voice and their local community. They carefully crafted a newspaper to help people of the region understand the events occurring near their homes. The "Precinct Reporter" was a key voice for civil rights in the city reporting weekly on the activities of the Community League of Mothers as they fought to end school desegregation in San Bernardino, CA. During this time, Frances Grice remembers how, “ We were front page in the Precinct Reporter so all the white people start to [run] to get the Precinct Reporter before it got off the press!”
Date: 1965
Creator: The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project
Format: Information Sheet
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Rights Holder: The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project