St. Paul Echo
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St. Paul Echo was an African-American newspaper published in St. Paul from 1925 through 1927.[1] It was a weekly, 8-page newspaper covering local and national news items. Its founding editor was Earl Wilkins, graduate of the University of Minnesota and brother of Roy Wilkins, who also contributed to the black press. Wilkins took a strong polemical stance against the forms of discrimination faced by the Twin Cities' Black population. The paper was known to mail pens to every new subscriber, the underscore the power of the written word.
Wilkins was known both for his activism and his eloquent journalistic prose; an excerpt: "If New York has its Lenox Avenue, Chicago its State Street and Memphis its Beale Street, just as surely has St. Paul a riot of warmth, and color, and feeling and sound in Rondo Street. There are sights which would make a man from rural portions of the south feel perfectly at home; there are sights which would make the man from parts of Harlem or State Street feel at ease. It is alive with feeling." Wilkins had to withdraw from his role due to a medical condition, and the paper shut down in the summer of 1927. Earl Wilkins went on the briefly contribute to the Kansas City Call with his brotherRoy, but passed away in 1941. His son Roger Wilkins went on become a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and later the United States Assistant Attorney General.
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