(POLITICS) Coming Congressman Oscar DePriest the Only Negro

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(POLITICS.) Coming! Congressman Oscar DePriest, the Only Negro in the U.S. Congress. Letterpress handbill, 9 x 5 3/4 inches; dampstaining, chips in upper margin, vertical fold. Charleston, SC, 1931

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Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871-1951) of Chicago was the first Black Congressman elected in the 20th century, serving three terms from 1929 to 1935. This handbill is for a lecture he gave at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina: "Congressman DePriest is the most outstanding Negro in American public life today. No Negro can afford to miss seeing and hearing this great man."