On this day in 1837, a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, murdered Elijah Parish Lovejoy as he defended the site of his anti-slavery newspaper, The Alton Observer. The mob wrecked his press and ...

On this day in 1837, a pro-slavery mob shot and killed Elijah Parish Lovejoy as he sought to defend a newly delivered set of presses of the St. Louis Observer, his anti-slavery newspaper ...

Just weeks before, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, ardent abolitionist and editor of the St. Louis Observer, was shot to death outside his warehouse in Alton, Ill., by a pro-slavery mob. “Whenever the ...

Sparks Milling Company workers were dredging the Mississippi River to make way for a concrete pier when they unearthed the cast-iron yoke believed to be part of Elijah Parish Lovejoy’s printing ...

Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2024. There are 54 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana ...

Learn more. The award, given annually, is named for Lovejoy, an Albion native and 1826 Colby alumnus, journalist and Presbyterian minister and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 at age 34 while ...

“Ms. Charles has spent her career revealing injustice and threats to humanity, just as Elijah Parish Lovejoy did.” Martin Kaiser, chairman of the Lovejoy Advisory Board, said that Charles ...

I learned from Kariem Haqq, a historian and founder of the 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement, that Hall was a friend of Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, and publisher Elijah Parish Lovejoy. O ...

Jacqueline Charles, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy Award-winning Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald, has been awarded the 2024 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in ...