The Richmond Planet was an African American newspaper founded in 1882 in Richmond, Virginia . In 1938, it merged with the Richmond Afro-American .
7-471: The paper was founded in 1882 by thirteen former slaves - James H. Hayes, James H. Johnston, E.R. Carter, Walter Fitzhugh, George W. Lewis, James E. Robinson, Henry Hucles, Albert V. Norrell, Benjamin A. Graves, James E. Merriweather, Edward A. Randolph, William H. Andrews and Reuben T. Hill. Gathering in an upper room of a building located near the corner of 3rd and Broad Streets, they pooled their meager resources and started America’s oldest Negro newspaper, which
14-598: A weekly circulation of 4,200. The paper continued publication until 1938, when it merged with the Richmond Afro-American . The paper responded to the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 . The work of photographer James C. Farley was published in the Planet . Farley served on the board of Mitchell Jr.'s Mechanics Savings Bank. John Mitchell Jr. was the paper's junior editor in 1912. The same year
21-591: The World Exposition in New Orleans . Randolph also served on both houses of the Virginia state legislature and also edited and published an African-American newspaper, The Richmond Planet , also edited by John Mitchell Jr . In 1884, he published ‘'The life of Rev. John Jasper , pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. : from his birth to the present time, with his theory on
28-522: The first African-American to graduate from Yale Law School . In July 1880, Randolph was the first African-American to be admitted to the Connecticut bar . Randolph was born in about 1850, to a family of free parentage. In his youth, Randolph worked as a driver for a white physician, Dr. James B. McCaw . McCaw was the medical superintendent of Chimborazo Hospital , during the Civil War . In
35-461: The mid-1870s Randolph left Richmond to attend Wayland Seminary and then in 1878 he entered Yale Law School. Whilst practicing law in Virginia, Randolph also served as a councilman and alderman in Richmond. Randolph was elected to the common council in Richmond, from 1881 to 1883. From 1883 to 1886 he served on the board of alderman and from 1884 to 1885, he was on Virginia’s commissions for
42-574: The paper covered the opening of Lincoln Memorial Hall on the campus of Temperance, Industrial, and Collegiate Institute in Claremont, Virginia . This article about a Virginia newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Edwin Archer Randolph Edwin Archer Randolph (c. 1850- unknown ) was an American lawyer, politician, and journalist from Virginia . In 1880, Randolph became
49-593: Was destined to play an important part in molding the opinions of Negroes in not only Richmond but Virginia as a whole, as well as in the nation. It was edited first by Edwin Archer Randolph and then by John Mitchell, Jr. from 1884 until his death in 1929. Mitchell was also president of the National Afro-American Press Association and the founder and president of Mechanics Savings Bank . By 1904, The Planet had reached
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