WASHINGTON BOOKER T Large lithographed poster with a bust po

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WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Large lithographed poster with a bust portrait of a youthful Washington. 28 x 21 inches, in blue pencil across the bottom "will speak at colored grade school auditorium Nov. 1 1910 at 8 o'clock pm." Accompanied by two tickets to the event advertised, one of them a reserved seat. Framed. [Wilson, N.C.], 1910

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a rare poster from washington's 1910 tour of the south. During the year 1910, Washington spoke throughout the South urging Negroes to stay put, educate themselves and learn trades, rather than moving to the North and Mid-West. During that same year, the North Carolina Business League asked Washington to speak. Washington's host in Wilson, N.C. was Samuel Vick, postmaster and an important local political figure. Vick had been appointed by his good friend Congressman Henry Cheatham, one of only five African Americans elected in the Jim Crow 1890's South.