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Front page of The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va., November 10, 1900

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The Richmond Planet

Richmond, Va. · November 10, 1900

John Mitchell Jr. ran the Planet for nearly fifty years and put a raised, muscled arm gripping lightning in the masthead. He reported lynchings by name and address when doing so could get a man killed.

Published
Richmond, Va.
Run
Not recorded
This issue
November 10, 1900
Catalog no.
sn84025841

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This paper covered them

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People on the Record whose citation was taken out of The Richmond Planet. The two collections are matched on the Library of Congress catalog number, not on the paper’s name — a name is not an identifier, and matching on one put the New-York Tribune in this archive the first time it was tried.

W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963Marcus Garvey1887–1940Josephine Baker1906–1975Ernest E. Just1883–1941

Printing at the same time

1900–1918