Open letter to President McKinley

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.

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.

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01/01/1899

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