The Circuit (newspaper)

{{Short description|African American newspaper published in Virginia}}

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| name = The Circuit

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| type = Monthly

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| founder = {{Plainlist |

Thomas Chapman Tyler
William H. Lewis, Sr.

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| publisher = Negro Journal Association of Northern Virginia

| editor = Joseph C. Hackett

| president = W. H. Lewis

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| assoceditor = J. H. Anderson

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| foundation = {{Start date|1937}}

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| language = English

| ceased publication = 1954

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| headquarters = Catlett, Virginia

| circulation = 1,200

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| oclc = 40901521

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The Circuit was an African American newspaper published in Catlett, Virginia, from 1937 until 1954.{{Cite news | title = Making ‘The Circuit’: Fauquier’s African-American newspaper hailed from Catlett By Vicky Moon Contributing Writer | last = Moon | first = Vicky | date = 2019-02-22 | url = https://www.fauquier.com/lifestyles/making-the-circuit-fauquier-s-african-american-newspaper-hailed-from/article_0e5ed986-3531-11e9-9615-5f32acb6884e.html | newspaper = Fauquier Times | access-date = 2020-01-24}} It was described as "Virginia's only colored paper north of Richmond."{{Cite web | title = About The Circuit. (Catlett, Va.) 1937-19?? | url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99066743/ | access-date = 2020-01-18 | publisher = Library of Congress | work = Chronicling America}} The Circuit was important to the African American communities in northern Virginia during the Jim Crow era.{{cite book|last=Hollie|first=Donna Tyler|title=African Americans of Fauquier County|year=2009|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston, S.C.|isbn=0-7385-6757-4|page=105|author2=Tyler, Brett M. |author3=White, Karen Hughes }}

{{As of|2013|11}}, only ten issues are known to still exist in archives, five at the Library of Virginia{{cite web|title=Libraries that Have It: The Circuit. (Catlett, Va.) 1937-19??|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99066743/holdings/|work=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers|publisher=US Library of Congress|access-date=21 October 2013}} and six at the archives of the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County (AAHAFC) in The Plains, Virginia.{{cite web|title=Library and Archives|url=http://www.aahafauquier.org/InsideAAHA/LibraryArchives/tabid/56/Default.aspx|publisher=Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County|access-date=20 November 2013}} Information published in those available copies was important in documenting the historic nature of some African-American communities such as the Ashville Historic District.{{cite web|title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM- Ashville Historic District|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Fauquier/030-5323_Ashville_Historic_District_2004_Final_Nomination.pdf|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|access-date=21 October 2013}}

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! colspan="2" | Surviving issues

Date

| Held by

1940 Feb

| Library of Virginia

1940 Mar

| Library of Virginia

1942 Dec

| Library of Virginia

1943 May

| AAHAFC