(BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA) POOLE PAUL PHOTOGRAPHER Group photog

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(BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.) POOLE, PAUL, PHOTOGRAPHER. Group photograph of the first Negro Boy Scout troop. Silver print photograph, sepia toned, 8 x 10 inches on the original photographer's mount, 11 x 13 inches. [Atlanta, circa 1920]

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a rare group image of an early african american boy scout troop. The first African American council was founded in 1911 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, amid much hue and cry from the all-white 'Boy Scouts of America.' Despite the animosity and even threats, black scouts continued to organize and meet. By 1926 there were 248 all black councils with 4923 scouts. Within ten years, there was only one council in the deep South that still refused to admit black members. The Boy Scouts were originally the creation of General Robert Baden-Powell, an English reformer. The idea was to provide young men with something to occupy them and at the same time teach moral and ethical values. These boys of various ages represent different levels from 'cub' to 'eagle' are posed with their back-packs in front of them.