{{Short description|Kansas City newspaper serving African-American community}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Kansas City Sun | logo = | logo_size = | logo_border = | logo_alt = | image = 1914 Kansas City Sun Missouri May 23 LC.jpg | image_size = | image_border = | image_alt = | caption = May 23, 1914 front page | motto = | type = | format = | school = | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = | president = | general_manager = | chief_editor = | editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = <!-- or |managing_editor= --> | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | custom_label = | custom_data = | founded = 1908<!-- or |launched= --><!-- Use: {{start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{start date|...}}, if ceased --> | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = 1924<!-- Use: {{end date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = Kansas City, Missouri | publishing_country = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = }} The '''''Kansas City Sun''''' was a newspaper for the African American community in Kansas City, Missouri.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kprs.com/2017/06/20/history-today-the-kansas-city-sun-front-page-june-20-1904/|title=HISTORY TODAY: The Kansas City Sun front page, June 20, 1904|date=June 20, 2017|website=Hot 103 Jamz!}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-kansas-city-sun/1385/|title=The Kansas City Sun on Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|date=3 July 1920 }}</ref> A weekly, it was published from 1908 until 1924.
==History== The Sun was one of the city's three weeklies serving the Black community in the city in the early 20th century along with Chester Arthur Franklin's ''The Call'' and William T. Washington's competing paper the ''Rising Son'' .<ref name="coulter">{{Cite book |last=Coulter |first=Charles Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXeRKb49l2UC&q=%2522Kansas+City+Sun%2522 |title=Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939 |date=2006 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-6518-0 |language=en}}</ref> Nelson C. Crews (1866 - 1923)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%253A115256|title=Biography of Nelson C. Crews (1866-1923) and James Crews (1859-1946), Civil Rights Pioneers | KC History|website=kchistory.org}}</ref> purchased the paper in 1911 used its editorials for advocacy in their roles as community advocates during their ten-year ownership.<ref name="coulter"/> Of the other two weeklies, the Sun's rivalry with '''Rising Son''' was the strongest until Crews bought it out in 1914 following a decline in the Son's influence.<ref name="lamb">{{Cite book |last=Schirmer |first=Sherry Lamb |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cFTxodD44OwC&dq=%2522Kansas+City+Sun%2522&pg=PA64 |title=A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 |date=2002-04-02 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-6363-6 |pages=85 |language=en}}</ref> Crews and Charleton H. Tandy of the ''St. Louis Palladium'' newspaper testified at a hearing of the Missouri House of Representatives about a bill which would require the "separation of the races" on public transportation. Crews advocated for a Kansas City hospital staffed by African Americans that would serve the African American community in the segregated city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn90061556/|title=The Kansas City Sun (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
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Category:Newspapers established in 1908 Category:Kansas City, Missouri Category:Newspapers disestablished in 1924 Category:African-American newspapers