15 Iconic Newspaper Covers That Went Down in History

Time to Face the Past

In an unusual move for a newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser issued a news article and an editorial on April 28, 2018, apologizing for its coverage of the lynchings of African-Americans over the past decades.

“We take responsibility for our proliferation of a false narrative regarding the treatment of African-Americans in those disgraceful days,” the editorial read.

“The Advertiser was careless in how it covered mob violence and the terror foisted upon African-Americans from Reconstruction through the 1950s. We dehumanized human beings. Too often we characterized lynching victims as guilty before proven so and often assumed they committed the crime.”

The front page of the newspaper contained not only the powerful editorial but also the names of some of the victims of the lynchings.