A Unique Scheme

A black news-dealer requests twenty-five copies of the Planet so he can sell only black-owned newspapers after seeing “100 colored men and boys with nothing but white papers to sell.”

A colored news-dealer under the firm name of Foster & Co. writes that he wishes 25 copies of the Planet. He has a store at 912 9th St. N. W., Washington D.C. and that he went out on the street Sunday past with nothing to sell but colored papers and he claims that he did so well that he has decided to continue the experiment. The idea came to him because he had seen 100 colored men and boys with nothing but white papers to sell. He declares that there is no reason why colored people should not support their own papers.

The Planet is sold on the streets of Richmond regularly and has held its own for years in this respect.

“A Unique Scheme,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 15, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1265.