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Title: The Afro-American press and its editors
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Penn, I. Garland (Irvine Garland), 1867-1930
Subjects: Press African Americans
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. Willey & co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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per, thesame writer says: Its weekly issue is looked for withconsiderable interest, as it discusses thoroughly all questionswhich may arise in the District of Columbia, and concerningwhich he expresses himself. The paper is especially notablefor its typographical make-up and its excellent proof-reading.We can not say more of The Advocate and its learned editorthan is here quoted. Messrs. William H. Anderson, Benjamin B. Pelham,W. H. Stowers, and R. Pelham, Jr., Editorsand Proprietors Plaindealer. Afro-American journalism is attended with many difficultiesin the way to success, that are not met by other people in thesame kind of work; yet there are journals published by themembers of the race to-day, which show that with the properbusiness capacity and editorial ability, the work can be mademost emphatically a success. Such a paper is The Detroit Plaindealer, with the gentle-men as editors and proprietors whose names appear at thehead of this article. The origin of this now-famed news-
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1G0 THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS. paper was under very adverse circumstances. Its first number,(May 19, 1883,) was a seven-column folio, with three col-umns of advertising matter. At its anniversary issue, May,1888, it had twenty pages, with fifty-four columns of adver-tising matter. In reading the history of The Plaindealer, asfound in the anniversary issue of May, 1888, one can seethat the glorious achievements which have attended theefforts of this ideal newspaper were due to its lofty conceptionof such work. The Plaindealer saw, at the very beginning,that there was more in Afro-American journalism than thedesire for financial success, for it says: But Afro-American newspapers have for their raisondetre other motives higher than money-making or notoriety,seeking which make their success or failure of more momentand of much more interest to those who appreciate theirnecessity. The failure of an Afro-American journal, i. e., agood one, means not simply that the people are supportingsome o

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