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(CIVIL RIGHTS—WHITE SUPPREMACY.) FELTON, REBECCA
LATIMER (MRS. W.H. FELTON).
Autograph Letter Signed, to Governor W.J.
Northern, June 7, 1899.
6 4to pages, written on rectos only; paper evenly toned; a cou-
ple of tiny chips; corrections throughout * [together with] a copy of Governor Northern’s
pamphlet, “The Negro at the South,” 17 pages, 8vo, original wrappers. Atlanta, 1894.
Atlanta, June 7, 1899, 1894
[1,500/2,500]
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930), white supremacist, pro-lynching advocate, suffragette,
and member of the State Senate (1922) writes at length to then Governor William J.
Northern, reformer and anti-lynching advocate. She thanks him for the opportunity to critique
his recent speech in Boston (apparently sent her in printed form). Felton’s letter is filled with
references to black men as rapists.
In the pamphlet accompanying this letter, Northern answers a number of letters sent him,
about lynching, citing Ida B. Wells, (1862-1931) the noted black woman journalist who
exposed the myth of the black man as rapist. It was Wells who exposed the enormous number
of lynchings that were being carried out, not only in the South but in states like Ohio and even
New Jersey. Comparisons of Ida Wells and Rebecca Felton have been made, the one being the
antithesis of the other.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—FLORIDA.)
Programme, for the Celebration of the
55th Anniversary of the American Freedom, Miami, Dade County, Florida,
January 1st, 1920.
Broadside, printed in black on green paper with a decorative “Greek-
key” border; faint creases where folded.
Miami: Magic Printing, 1920
[400/600]
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