(HISTORY) Ribbon worn by an officer of the John Brown Memori

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(HISTORY.) Ribbon worn by an officer of the John Brown Memorial Association. 9 x 2¾ inches, consisting of a decorative cloth badge 2¾ inches in diameter with a mounted ¾-inch enamel button reading "Fin'l Sect'y," with a fringed silk ribbon hanging below bearing a portrait of John Brown and the date of his execution, reading "Memorial Association, [Inc]orporated May 9, 1896," and faint inked stamps of the manufacturer on verso; wear to ribbon including 1¼ x ¼-inch area of loss, lacking the pin on verso. Providence, RI: Evans, circa 1896

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The John Brown Memorial Association, hoping to create a lasting monument to the abolitionist martyr, was incorporated in Providence, RI on what would have been his 96th birthday, 9 May 1896. Their constitution issued in St. Paul, MN stated their goal to be "a building to be used as an industrial training school and home for indigent colored boys." In their 1896 constitution, Mrs. Anna Belle Harris was named as financial secretary. The cause was promoted by the National Association of Colored Women.