The Topeka Plaindealer was a newspaper in Topeka, Kansas serving its African American community. [1] It was founded as the Topeka Call by Will Pope. Joseph Blackburn Bass worked at it. [2] It was purchased in 1899 by Nick Chiles who continued as its editor and publisher during his lifetime. He died in 1929, and the paper continued until 1958. [3] According to a historian reporting in the Topeka Capital-Journal it became the bestselling African American newspaper west of the Mississippi River. [4]