 Lime Kiln Club

The Lime-Kiln Club was a fictitious fraternal organization of African-Americans created by writer and journalist Charles Bertrand Lewis for the "Detroit Free Press" in the late 19th century.The Free Press was a Democratic weekly paper owned by the Scripps brothers and it was notable in its era for humor, low cost, and reliance on advertising revenue The two-cent price point of the paper (significantly lower than other publications) allowed for widespread distribution to working class audiences.