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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Boston, 1899]
SUMMARY
A letter from prominent African American citizens of Boston to President McKinley protesting presidential inaction and toleration of racial prejudice, discrimination, and recent violence against blacks in the South. They plead for a guarantee of all civil rights for US blacks as set forth in the Constitution, especially in the South, to enable African Americans to rise out of poverty, ignorance, and social degradation. The letter is signed by several prominent Boston African Americans.
NOTES
Cover-title.
Read at a mass meeting, October 3d, 1899, by Archibald H. Grimké, chairman of the committee.
Signed: I. D. Barnett, president. Edward E. Brown, vice-president [etc.]
SUBJECTS
Negroes--Civil rights.
Negroes--Massachusetts.
Letters--Massachusetts--Boston--1899.
RELATED NAMES
Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930.
Barnett, Isaiah D.
MEDIUM
11 p. 23 cm.
CALL NUMBER
E185.3 .C71
PART OF
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
DIGITAL ID
lcrbmrp t1722 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lcrbmrp.t1722
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