While still a student in 1871, Pelham started working at the Daily Post, later the Detroit Morning Tribune, which was the state's leading Republican newspaper and was owned by Zachariah Chandler.
In 1883, Pelham and his brother Benjamin, along with W. H. Anderson and W. H. Stowers, started the Detroit Plaindealer.
The paper ran until 1893.
Pelham, in the Plaindealer, lauded the work of Ida B. Wells and supported calls for the organization of blacks throughout the country for the purposes of civil rights.
Pelham worked with D. Augustus Straker to create branches of the National Afro-American League in Michigan in the 1890s and the pair were active, in part through the league, in supporting blacks in legal trouble.
Pelham was an important figure in the league at a national level.
While still a student in 1871, Pelham started working at the Daily Post, later the Detroit Morning Tribune, which was the state's leading Republican newspaper and was owned by Zachariah Chandler. In 1883, Pelham and his brother Benjamin, along with W. H. Anderson and W. H. Stowers, started the Detroit Plaindealer. The paper ran until 1893. Pelham, in the Plaindealer, lauded the work of Ida B. Wells and supported calls for the organization of blacks throughout the country for the purposes of civil rights. Pelham worked with D. Augustus Straker to create branches of the National Afro-American League in Michigan in the 1890s and the pair were active, in part through the league, in supporting blacks in legal trouble. Pelham was an important figure in the league at a national level.
Robert Pelham Jr.