December 17th, Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Book, Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/17/2020
TLS, one page, 7.5 x 9.5, The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, January 6, 1896. Letter to John Birkinbine, in reference to some type of souvenir. Matted with a photo card of Washington. In fine condition.
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
With One Of A Kind Collectibles COA.
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