In today’s paper, we reflect on the sesquicentennial anniversary of both the city of Tupelo and the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. While…
Early this year, Daily Journal staff began planning how to remember our history. In 2020, the city of Tupelo and the Northeast Mississippi Dai…
As the city of Tupelo steered into the first two decades of the 21st century, it was buoyed by fresh economic and civic successes while also f…
Only six years had passed since the end of the Civil War, a destructive and bloody conflict fought over the future of enslaved labor and the n…
TUPELO • As a new year dawned 10 months ago, City Hall and tourism officials had a full slate of events planned to celebrate the sesquicentenn…
Harvey C. Medford
Jack Reed Sr.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt stepped off a train in Tupelo, it was the first visit to the state from a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson, 1…
Tupelo’s efforts during the Civil Rights era to overcome the racist divisions of Mississippi have long been a point of pride within the commun…
An estimated 75,000 – 100,000 people crowded the streets of Tupelo before 8 a.m., Nov. 18, 1934, to see a special train carrying a special cou…
Louise Godwin
In the early decades of the 20th century, John Hine used to camera to advocate for reforms to child labor laws. While working on behalf of adv…
Education has long been the cornerstone of Tupelo’s development as a community – driving its ability to recruit business, retain family and bi…
The Tupelo tornado is ranked as the fourth deadliest in U.S. history. It was part of an outbreak of 12 tornadoes that swept through the Southe…
Norma Fields never darkened the door of a journalism school. Self-taught, she plunged through official papers, cajoled sources, and wrote poet…
1870 The Lee County Journal is established, with George Herndon as its first owner-editor.
On June 1, 1936, about two years after George McLean purchased it, the Tupelo Journal began to publish five days a week and was now styled as …
1870 • Four years after the creation of Lee County, Tupelo is charted on July 20, with a population of 618.
