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The Circuit (newspaper)

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Type
  
Monthly

Editor
  
Joseph C. Hackett

President
  
W. H. Lewis

Associate editor
  
J. H. Anderson

Founder(s)
  
Thomas Chapman Tyler William H. Lewis, Sr.

Publisher
  
Negro Journal Association of Northern Virginia

The Circuit was an African-American newspaper published in Catlett, Virginia from 1937 until 1954. It was described as "Virginia's only colored paper north of Richmond." The Circuit was important to the African American communities in northern Virginia during the Jim Crow era.

As of November 2013, only ten issues are known to still exist in archives, five at the Library of Virginia and six at the archives of the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County (AAHAFC) in The Plains, Virginia. Information published in those available copies was important in documenting the historic nature of some African-American communities such as the Ashville Historic District.

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The Circuit (newspaper) Wikipedia