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Front page of The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind., January 6, 1900

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The Freeman

Indianapolis, Ind. · January 6, 1900

The first illustrated Black newspaper in the country — it ran engravings and portraits when almost no Black paper could afford them, and was called the Harper's Weekly of the colored race. The Library of Congress holds 883 issues of it from this quarter-century alone.

Published
Indianapolis, Ind.
Run
Not recorded
This issue
January 6, 1900
Catalog no.
sn82016211

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The scan opens at the Library of Congress, where you can zoom into the type and turn to the inside pages. Public domain.

This paper covered them

4

People on the Record whose citation was taken out of The Freeman. 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.

Jack Johnson1878–1946Ida B. Wells1862–1931Blanche K. Bruce1841–1898Hiram R. Revels1827–1901

Printing at the same time

1900–1918