Philadelphia: Committee of the Colored Citizens Union, [1925].
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Unbound. Folio. Typed ribbon-copy manuscript. Three leaves including cover leaf. Old folds with splits at the folds, and detached cover leaf. The Committee representing an "organization of the independent political workers of this municipality," urges the nomination "to train the voters of this city to vote for men and measures rather than parties; there is no better way than to give representation to a people who are by long continued practice furthest away from the principals [sic] you endeavor to inaugurate." Mossell was "the best known of any individual member of the Bar of this City identified with the Race." Along with several manuscript corrections to the text, this document is Signed by nine members of the Committee: John W. Parks, Jas. H. Freeman, J.B. Chesire, Geo. H. Wilson, Jas. Wright, J.P. Lewis, J.B. Griffin, J.C. Nelson, and Hamilton Snowden. An interesting insight into political strategies of the African-American citizens of Philadelphia.
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