Benjamin Pelham was a powerful Detroit politician and journalist. He was the proprietor and editor of the first successful African American newspaper in Detroit, The Plaindealer. Pelham was born in Detroit on February 7, 1862, to free parents from Virginia, Robert Pelham, a plasterer, and mason and Frances Butcher. While in high school, Pelham was […]

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