The Telegraph

Illinois anti-slavery society was founded in Upper Alton

Elijah Lovejoy, the abolitionist editor of the Alton Observer, had grown impatient with the timidity of the anti-slavery cause in Illinois. He decided that abolitionists in the Prairie State would be ...
The Telegraph

Marker spotlights Lovejoy sites in Alton

ALTON — A new historical marker now designates an area significant to martyred abolitionist newspaper publisher and minister Elijah P. Lovejoy, in time for the 176th commemoration of his death. “I ...
Southeast Missourian

Alton, Ill., erects marker honoring famed abolitionist

ALTON, Ill. -- A southwestern Illinois city is honoring its ties to famed abolitionist and journalist Elijah Lovejoy with a new marker. The (Alton) Telegraph reported the newly installed, ...
The Nation

The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837)

Christ’s editor becomes Christ’s martyr: band the newspaper columns black for Elijah P. Lovejoy, who fired back. They threw his first three presses into the river. They came with guns, stones, ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Alton erects marker honoring famed abolitionist

ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois city has unveiled a historical marker commemorating its ties to Elijah Lovejoy in time for the 176th anniversary of the death of the famed abolitionist and ...
Southeast Missourian

Alton, Ill., erects marker honoring famed abolitionist

ALTON, Ill. -- A southwestern Illinois city has unveiled a historical marker commemorating its ties to Elijah Lovejoy in time for the 176th anniversary of the death of the famed abolitionist and ...