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DETROIT TRIBUNE.

The Detroit Tribune represented an important voice in Detroit's Black press. Its surviving issues help broaden the historical record beyond the city's major daily newspapers and illuminate community life, institutions, politics, and events from another perspective.

Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro business district
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Arthur S. Siegel photograph of a Detroit Black business district, February 1942. Source record.CONTEXT IMAGE — NOT THE DETROIT TRIBUNE OFFICE. The Library of Congress preserves digitized Detroit Tribune issues separately.
WHY IT MATTERS

Reading a broader Detroit record.

The Tribune adds reporting, community priorities, and language that can widen a story otherwise dominated by the major dailies.

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Read the real paper.

The Library of Congress preserves digitized issues of The Detroit Tribune. This doorway opens an actual March 26, 1949 issue rather than substituting a recreated newspaper page.

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