Autograph manuscript letter from R. B. Robinson, editor and proprietor of The Kanawha Advance in Charleston, West Virginia, to Benjamin F. Jones, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dated 1884 September 22. Robinson asks for funds to support the publication of The Kanawha Advance, "the only colored newspaper in the state." Robinson also reports that the Democrats are gaining support among African Americans in Ohio and West Virginia ahead of the 1884 presidential election, but claims that a unified republican vote among West Virginia African Americans would secure the state for the party. Enclosed is a clipping from The Kanawha Advance dated 20 September 188[4] reporting on the first Colored Men of West Virginia state convention held in Charleston on 18 September, during which Robinson was appointed chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Colored Men of West Virginia
Description:
Robert B. Robinson was an African American newspaper owner and editor born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1848, to Reverend Robert H. Robinson (1824-1909) and Mary Ann Warwick Robinson (1832-1899). With his brother Magnus L. Robinson (1852-1918), he founded the The Virginia Post in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, Robinson managed the Virginia branch of The Washington Bee, and established The Kanawha Advance newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. Robinson was involved with the Republican Party and the Readjuster Party., Benjamin Franklin Jones (1824-1903) was an iron and steel industrialist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1884-1888., In English., and Accompanied by an envelope featuring manuscript notes about the letter in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
West Virginia., United States, and West Virginia
Subject (Name):
Jones, Benjamin F. 1824-1903. (Benjamin Franklin),, Robinson, R. B. 1848- (Robert B.),, Colored Men of West Virginia., and Republican National Committee (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
African American newspaper editors, African American newspapers, African Americans, Political activity, Presidents, Election, and Politics and government
National Conference on Equal Opportunity in Housing: Challenge to American Communities, (1963
Published / Created:
1963?]
Call Number:
E185.89 H6 N37 (LC)+ Oversize
Image Count:
72
Description:
Cover title: Equal opportunity in housing; challenge to American communities. and "Sponsored by the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing."
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Housing, and Discrimination in housing
Title from caption below image; series title above image., Date of publication based on publisher' s date of activity., Two lines of dialogue below other title: Romeo. How silber sweet, sounds lubber tongues by night like sorptest music to attending ears ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1831.
Publisher:
Pub. by W.H. Isaacs, Charles St., Soho
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Afro-Americans, and Clothing & dress. |2 lctgm
For medium voice and piano., First line: De railroad bridge is a sad song in de air., Illustrated title page in brown, black, and white; design by Mordi depicts a Black man, with head thrown back, standing in the foreground; a railroad track winds to a country house in the distance., and Advertisement for "New songs by Jacques Wolfe" (with his portrait and musical excerpts) on p. [6].
Publisher:
Robbins Music Corp
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 and Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (Medium voice) with piano and African Americans
BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: Paper brittle. Mutilated with loss of text: 5:2., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Stamp of Jerome B. Peterson: 1:2-1:5, 4:3-4:4, 5:2-5:5, 6:3-6:5, 13:5, 14:1, 14:5, 14:9, 15:2-15:3, 16:4, 17:5., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: pages 367-358 wanting; ownership inscription: Kate Grasses: 14:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: front cover wanting: 2:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Bound with covers upside down; autograph: George R. Rainey: 17:4 Copy 1., SML MIC Film S398: 4 reels 35mm., Vols. 1-17, 1900-09. 2 v., and Imprint varies: May 1900-₍Feb. 1904₎, Boston, Colored Co-operative Pub. Co
BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: Paper brittle. Mutilated with loss of text: 5:2., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Stamp of Jerome B. Peterson: 1:2-1:5, 4:3-4:4, 5:2-5:5, 6:3-6:5, 13:5, 14:1, 14:5, 14:9, 15:2-15:3, 16:4, 17:5., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: pages 367-358 wanting; ownership inscription: Kate Grasses: 14:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: front cover wanting: 2:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Bound with covers upside down; autograph: George R. Rainey: 17:4 Copy 1., SML MIC Film S398: 4 reels 35mm., Vols. 1-17, 1900-09. 2 v., and Imprint varies: May 1900-₍Feb. 1904₎, Boston, Colored Co-operative Pub. Co
BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: Paper brittle. Mutilated with loss of text: 5:2., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Stamp of Jerome B. Peterson: 1:2-1:5, 4:3-4:4, 5:2-5:5, 6:3-6:5, 13:5, 14:1, 14:5, 14:9, 15:2-15:3, 16:4, 17:5., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: pages 367-358 wanting; ownership inscription: Kate Grasses: 14:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Imperfect: front cover wanting: 2:6., BEIN JWJ A +C7195: Bound with covers upside down; autograph: George R. Rainey: 17:4 Copy 1., SML MIC Film S398: 4 reels 35mm., Vols. 1-17, 1900-09. 2 v., and Imprint varies: May 1900-₍Feb. 1904₎, Boston, Colored Co-operative Pub. Co
