The Huntsville Gazette, also known as the Weekly Gazette, was a newspaper for African Americans in Huntsville, Alabama that ran from 1879 or 1881-1894. [1] [2] The Library of Congress has numerous editions in its collection. [3] Charles Hendley Jr. served as its editor. [4] He is buried at the Glenwood Cemetery in Huntsville. [5] [6]
The paper was Republican Party aligned at a time when Democrats dominated Alabama and Southern politics in the post-Reconstruction era period of its publication. [2] The paper folded in December 1894. [1]
Hendley was born in December 1855. A profile of him is included in Irvine Garland Penn's 1894 book on the African American press, although little is known of his upbringing. [2] [7] Henry C. Binford edited The Journal in Huntsville. [6]