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Advertisement for a fundraising event at the Chester Presbyterian Church for benefit of the Hampton Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute which was founded on the banks of the Virginia Peninsula by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman Armstrong in...
Newpaper article alerting readers of an upcoming vote on an amendment that would give African Americans the right to vote. The author is encouraging people to vote against the amendment. On November 19, 1860 the vote was taken. 32 voted for giving...
George Avery, a leader for many years in Saint Philips AME Zion Church and a spokesman for Nyack blacks on civic matters, with his wife, Sarah, and six of their children in front of their home on Jackson Avenue. Standing left to right are Sylvia,...