Souvenir Program Eighth Annual Essay (1 results)
Published by [Crystal Printing Co], Chicago, 1917
- Softcover
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.Caroliniana
Contact seller5-star sellerOctavo, 8.5 x 5.5", grey stapled wrappers with black lettering, [14] pp, illustrated advertisements. A scarce souvenir program published alongside an essay writing contest at St. Mark's Methodist Church in Chicago, a historic African American congregation founded in 1893 that had many of the city's prominent African Americans am…ong its members (Spear, "Black Chicago: The Making of a Ghetto," 94). The contest was held under the auspices of St. Mark's Lyceum, presumably some kind of school run by the church, which had a Miss Lucille Robinson as president. According to a blurb on page one, the contest, then in its eighth year, was sponsored by a local jeweler, and was intended "to encourage and increase greater interest among our young people in literary work." The booklet also contains a program of the day's events commemorating the contest, the subject of which was "What Will Be The Status of the Negro in the World's Democracy." There are also numerous ads for African American businesses and politicians, including the Pullman Porters' Review, a theater, a beauty school run by a Miss Leora Smith, and the National Association for the Retrogression of Colored People. The program bears no imprint, but contains a promotional slogan on the upper margin of each page for the Crystal Printing Co, a local Black-owned publisher. Slight toning to pages and covers, foxing and mild soiling to covers, chip to edge of rear wrapper.
