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Detroit Plaindealer

Detroit Plaindealer

 

This weekly African American newspaper began publishing in Detroit with the May 16, 1883 paper and ceased publication in about 1895. From Library of Michigan, DALNET has digitized (with the help of the Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library's Michigan Digital Newspaper Project), the available run of the newspaper from 1889 to 1893.

Collections in this community

  • 1889
    Issues for September 20-December 27, 1889
  • 1890
    Issues for January 3-December 26, 1890
  • 1891
    Issues for January 2-December 25, 1891
  • 1892
    Issues for January 1-December 30, 1892 (missing June 10, 1892 issue)
  • 1893
    Issues for January 6-May 19, 1893

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  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-05-19)
    World's Fair; Maggie Porter-Cole; Music; Composers; Lynching
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    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-05-12)
    Frederick Douglass; Lynching; World's Fair; Othello; William Shakespeare
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-05-05)
    John M. Thurston; Republican Party; Afro-Alabama Cotton Mill; James City, N.C.; World's Fair
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-04-28)
    Paul L. Dunbar; David Jenkins; Rev. Alexander Crummell; Tower Society; World's Fair
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-04-21)
    British West Indies Regiment; Victoria Cross; William E. Easton; Anna Julia Cooper; George Dixon; Boxing
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-04-14)
    Michigan Equal Rights Association; Grover Cleveland; Railroad Car Segregation; World's Fair
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-04-07)
    Jockeys; Priscilla Cadwallader; Vagrancy Laws; Colonization (Brazil); Rev. J. B. Massiah
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-03-31)
    Boston Liberty Guards; Frederick Douglass; Tuskegee Conference; World's Fair; Bishop John M. Brown
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-03-24)
    Grover Cleveland; Boxing; Railroad Cars; Wayne County (Michigan) Circuit Court; Elections
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-03-17)
    Charles Ethan Porter; Brooklyn Board of Education; Integrated Schools; World's Fair; Detroit elections
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-03-10)
    General Benjamin Butler; Stanley Hott; Freedman's Aid and Southern Education Society
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-03-03)
    Abraham Lincoln; 30th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation; Porter-Cole Chorus; Lincoln Banquet of the Ohio Republican League
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-02-24)
    Paris, Texas; Gov. Jim Hogg; Colleges; Colonization (Africa); Lynching
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-02-17)
    Peter Jackson; Boxing; Theatre; Howell Jackson; Supreme Court
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-02-10)
    Howell E. Jackson; Supreme Court; General Benjamin Butler; Lynching; Paris, Texas; Phillis Wheatley
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-02-03)
    General Benjamin Butler; Lynching; Europe; World's Fair
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-01-27)
    Phillis Wheatley; Europe; General Benjamin Butler; Haitian Revolution
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-01-20)
    General Benjamin Butler; Bishop John M. Brown; Liberia; Cincinnati businessmen
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1893-01-13)
    C.N. Grandison; Lynching; Fort Wagner; William H. Carney
  • Detroit Plaindealer 
    The Plaindealer Co. (1892-12-30)
    Jim Crow; Supreme Court; Railroad; Colonization (Africa); Jenny Bishop; Slavery

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