page_title: The Cleveland Gazette
hierarchical_section_title: The Cleveland Gazette
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Harry C. Smith, journalist, editor, founder and proprietor of the Cleveland Gazette, a long standing black newspaper that served the African American community and its interests from 1883 to 1945.
context_page_description: The Cleveland Gazette was a weekly newspaper published in Cleveland, Ohio from August 25, 1883, to May 20, 1945. It was an African-American newspaper owned and edited by Harry Clay Smith, initially with a group of partners. Circulation was estimated between 5,000 and 18,000.
  The Gazette became the longest-publishing African-American weekly in the U.S., earning its nickname "The Old Reliable" by never missing a Saturday publication date in 58 years.
context_section_description: The Cleveland Gazette was a weekly newspaper published in Cleveland, Ohio from August 25, 1883, to May 20, 1945. It was an African-American newspaper owned and edited by Harry Clay Smith, initially with a group of partners. Circulation was estimated between 5,000 and 18,000.
  The Gazette became the longest-publishing African-American weekly in the U.S., earning its nickname "The Old Reliable" by never missing a Saturday publication date in 58 years.
caption: Harry C. Smith, founder, editor and proprietor of The Cleveland Gazette for much of its early existence.
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