Florida Sun-Review

The Florida Sun-Review is a weekly African-American newspaper in central Florida. It is published in Orlando, with primary distribution points in Orange, Osceola, and Seminoles counties.^[1] It was founded in the 1920s^[2] and changed ownership in the '30s and again in the '70s.^[2] It has used several names, including the Florida Earth, the Sun-Review, and the Sun and Mirror.^[3]

The newspaper was founded by H.M. Alexander as the Sun in 1922,^[2] and published by Jo Lawrence Boden from 1931 to 1975.^[2] The Sun acquired the Orlando Mirror around 1950, becoming the Sun and Mirror.^[2] It was purchased by James Macon in 1975, who also acquired Orlando Review from James Madison; the paper became the Sun-Review.^[2]

• Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.
• Shedden, David (2019). "Florida Newspaper Chronology, 1783-2001" (PDF). Digital USFSP. University of South Florida St. Petersburg. S2CID 165459724. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
• Shofner, Jerrell H. (1983). "Florida". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The Black Press in the South, 1865–1979. ISBN 9780313222443.

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