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TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.
Chicago Tuskegee Club Year Book 1910-1945.
Copiously illustrated. 67 pages. Large 4to, original stiff yellow wrappers; very slight wear.
Chicago, 1945
[400/600]
Yearbook for Chicago alumni of Tuskegee, essentially a business directory. Includes a great deal of
advertising for businesses owned by Tuskegee graduates, and a Who’s Who of Tuskegee Club mem-
bers. The first such directory cum yearbook we’ve seen.
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WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Con-
vention of the National Negro Business League.
Silver print photograph 4
3
⁄
4
x 6
3
⁄
4
inches, with the stamp of George Grantham Bain on reverse; Bain’s caption in white in the
negative appears across the top of the photo “woven” through the border of the curtain
above.
[Boston], 1900
[500/750]
Theodore Roosevelt (then vice president) addresses a meeting of the National Negro Business League
in Boston in 1900. A vocal and outright supporter of Washington, Roosevelt once invited him to
dine at the White House, a gesture that brought a veritable storm of ugly racist protest. A politician
from South Carolina said; “We will now have to kill a thousand niggers before they learn their place
again.” Roosevelt was undeterred; Washington dined with the President, his wife and his daughter.