# @sachistorymuseum on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@sachistorymuseum/video/7608390460540833037
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/56836425-sachistorymuseum-tiktok
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-19T02:01:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

February is Black History Month! We cover a lot of local newspaper history in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum and we thought we would take this opportunity to discuss early African American newspapers in our city.  The first Black-owned newspaper in California was the “Mirror of the Times, which was published in San Francisco in October 1856. Sacramento would not have an African American published newspaper until 1906. That newspaper was “The Forum,” published at 6th and P Streets at Shiloh Baptist Church by Rev. J. Gordon McPherson. Only one edition was published, however.  The next African American newspaper in Sacramento was the Western Review in 1914 but ceased publication in 1920. The Sacramento Outlook published from 1942 until 1962. The paper was sold to William H. Lee, Geno Gladden, and John W. Cole to form a new newspaper. The Sacramento Observer first published its newspaper on November 22, 1962. The Sacramento Observer has won more than 600 awards, including the National Newspaper Publishers Association's Russwurm Trophy for the country's best African American newspaper 6 times. In this video, Jared discusses the history of Sacramento’s African American owned newspapers and letterpress prints “The Sacramento Observer” using 15 line wood type made by the Hamilton Wood Type Company in the 1880s. This was printed with red oil base ink using our Washington hand press. #SacHistoryMuseum #BlackHistoryMonth #printing #sactiktok #edutok 

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## Tags

printing, edutok, sachistorymuseum, blackhistorymonth, sactiktok

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