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(EDUCATION.) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Personally made year book--album belonging to W. Ferguson Thornton. Large, oblong, string-bound cloth-covered album filled with photographs, calling cards, dance cards, Alpha Phi Alpha material, pamphlets, class booklets, and other ephemera. A couple of the long pages at the end with chips, not affecting photos etc. should be seen
an elaborately assembled year book--signed by a number of important african american businessmen, activists, and artists. An album rich in content assembled by W. Ferguson Thornton, a member of the class of 1920-1921. Thornton has not only collected the autographs and sentiments of a large number of his classmates, but arranged their photographs, dance cards from a ball, as well as calling cards, sporting records and other ephemera into a rich and most informative album. Classmates include: artist - cartoonist Wilbert Holloway, civil rights advocate William Monroe Trotter, actor Charles Gilpin, and Robert Taylor, first Negro graduate of MIT and later one of the most famous African American architects. Louis Freemont Baldwin, author and race historian, wrote: 'Rather than be a slave, seek ye an early grave and let thy soul go marching on.' Like Baldwin, most of the signers have added words of wisdom next to their entries.
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