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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Programme, Third Annual Session of the National Afro-American Council. 4 pages, 9 x 5¾ inches, on one folding sheet; worn with tape repair. Philadelphia, 7 August 1901
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The National Afro-American Council was founded in 1898 as the first national organization of its kind, and an important predecessor to the NAACP. This program for their three-day annual meeting includes the ten-point "Objects of the Council," including the investigation of lynchings, the fight for citizenship rights on constitutional grounds, prison reform, and support for migration out of the "terror-ridden sections of our land." Ida B. Wells-Barnett is listed as a speaker, delivering her report for the Anti-Lynching Bureau and the "Report on National Organization." Alexander Walters spoke as president, and T. Thomas Fortune delivered the report of the Executive Committee. OCLC records a lone copy of the Council's first program, but none later.

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