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Title
- Open letter to President McKinley
Summary
- A letter from prominent African American citizens of Boston to President McKinley protesting presidential inaction and toleration of racial prejudice, discrimination, and recent violence against blacks in the South. They plead for a guarantee of all civil rights for US blacks as set forth in the Constitution, especially in the South, to enable African Americans to rise out of poverty, ignorance, and social degradation. The letter is signed by several prominent Boston African Americans.
Names
- Colored National League.
- Barnett, I. D., (Isaiah D.)
- Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930.
- Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [Boston : s.n., 1899]
Headings
- - African Americans--Civil rights
- - African Americans--Massachusetts
- - Charles Street A.M.E. Church (Boston, Mass.)
Genre
- Letters--Massachusetts--Boston--1899
Notes
- - Cover title.
- - Read at a mass meeting, held in the Charles Street Church, October 3rd, 1899, by Archibald H. Grimké, chairman of the committee. Cf. p. [1].
- - Signed: I.D. Barnett, president. Edward E. Brown, vice-president ... [et al.]
- - "Not as suppliants do we present our claims but as American citizens" -- Cover.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Medium
- 11 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E185.3 .C71
- E449 .D16 vol. 17, no. 22
- E449 .D16 vol. 21, no. 5
- E185 .A254 container C, no. 58 Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17754. Source unknown.
- E185 .Z9 box 1, no. 27
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 12002899
Online Format
- image
- online text
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Additional Metadata Formats
IIIF Presentation Manifest
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Contributor
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Barnett, I. D., (Isaiah D.)
- Colored National League
- Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Grimké, Archibald Henry