Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
Incredible Racist Art, 5” x 6-1/4,” pulpy paper, 1pp., VG. This illustration shows a wedding of Alice Roosevelt and Boker T. Washington, as identified on the work. The text, “To hear how Roosevelt is carrying on? I would like to give him a swift kick & see him full of holes, I wish the nation would make Alice marry Booker T Washington, don’t you?” In 1901, Roosevelt invited Washington to dine with him at the White House, making him the first black man ever to do so. Whoever wrote this racist note and drawing apparently did not approve of the gesture, suggesting that Roosevelt’s eldest daughter Alice marry the Civil Rights pioneer.
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