Item #92713 Lonnell Williams Post 143 ... presents the Annual Lincoln's Day Birthday Address Wednesday, February 12, 1947 Burt High School Auditorium Program. American Legion. Lonnell Williams Post No. 143.

Lonnell Williams Post 143 ... presents the Annual Lincoln's Day Birthday Address Wednesday, February 12, 1947 Burt High School Auditorium Program

Clarksville, Tennessee: 1947. 4p. folded Program. 22 cm. Cover slighlty soiled with fading on edges. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, a nephew of Booker T. Washington and the scheduled speaker, was a Republican Party functionary, a newspaper columnist and a popular orator at African American events. No subject is given for his address. Burt High School was the only high school for African Americans in Montgomery County, Tennessee. Wilma Rudolph (1958) is Burt's most famous graduate. We assume that this American Legion Post was for African Americans who had served in America's segregated Armed Forces. Good. Item #92713

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