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Newspaper The Detroit Tribune (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966

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About The Detroit Tribune (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966

The Detroit Tribune began publishing in 1933, promoting itself as “the leading Negro weekly in Michigan.” It was written by and sold to Detroit’s African American community. In 1933, the paper merged with another Black newspaper, the Detroit Independent, and was renamed the Tribune Independent of Michigan. The paper’s name was changed back to the Detroit Tribune in 1935.

Bankrupt in 1952, the paper was put up for auction and purchased by Andrew Ferdinand Fruehauf (1892-1965), an heir to the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation who had left the family business to become a publisher. Freuhauf was a Christian Scientist who dreamed of making the Tribune the Black counterpart of the Christian Science Monitor.

In an article that began on the front-page, published May 3, 1952, he expressed his complete faith in Christian Science. “It is undoubtedly true that Christian Science is destined to become the one and only religion and therapeutics on the planet.” If Fruehauf believed the paper had a spiritual mission, it also had a racial one. The banner under the paper’s masthead made clear the paper’s other agenda, “Crusader for the Invincible Triumphant Divine Rights of Man.” Freuhauf served as the paper’s publisher until his death on December 5, 1965. Immediately after Fruehauf’s death, the paper began to run a banner “Watch for the New Detroit Tribune” above the regular masthead. It would continue Freuhauf’s “dedication to the principle of human rights,” but not his insistence that the paper also carry information about Christian Science.

Provided By: Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library

About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Detroit Tribune (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966

Dates of Publication

  • 1935-1966

Created / Published

  • Detroit, Mich. : Midwest Pub. Co., 1935-

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Newspapers
  • -  Detroit (Mich.)--Newspapers
  • -  Wayne County (Mich.)--Newspapers
  • -  African Americans
  • -  Michigan--Detroit
  • -  Michigan--Wayne County
  • -  United States--Michigan--Wayne--Detroit

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Vol. 13, no. 26 (Sept. 14, 1935)-
  • -  Ceased in 1966.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.

Medium

  • v.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn92063852

OCLC Number

  • 26654010

ISSN Number

  • 2577-350x

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Chicago citation style:

The Detroit Tribune Detroit, Mich. -1966. (Detroit, MI), Jan. 1 1935. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92063852/.

APA citation style:

(1935, January 1) The Detroit Tribune Detroit, Mich. -1966. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn92063852/.

MLA citation style:

The Detroit Tribune Detroit, Mich. -1966. (Detroit, MI) 1 Jan. 1935. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn92063852/.