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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) GELLERT, HUGO.
Racism Chains Both.
Color poster 22
1
⁄
2
x 17
5
⁄
8
inches, depicting two hands, black and white, in shackles.
New York [1970]
[600/800]
Printed for the National Black Liberation Commission, 1970.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—FRATERNAL) WILLIAMS, G. GRANT.
A Warning to
All Colored Secret Organizations. Are We to Be “Jim Crowed” Here?
Broadside,
17
3
⁄
4
x 9 inches; creases where folded; a couple of short splits at the folds, but altogether
whole; paper evenly toned.
Philadelphia, 1910
[1,000/1,500]
The author of this broadside was the outspoken editor of the African American newspaper The
Philadelphia Tribune, G. Grant Williams. Williams said in an editorial in the fall of 1917,
after threats of racial attacks, “Stand your ground like men. Be quiet, be decent, maintain whole-
some surroundings, and if you are attacked, defend yourselves like American citizens.” The
subject of this broadside was an attempt by the all white Elks to have the State Legislatures
enact laws that would prevent blacks from forming black lodges of the Elks as well as virtually
any and all such organizations—which would have included the Masons as well. This did not
happen. In fact the black branch of the Elks (already formed in 1898 as the Improved
Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the World) was wise enough to copyright all of
the designs of the paraphenalia of the secret organization, making it necessary for the white
lodges to obtain permission from their black brothers for the use of same. A delicious revenge.
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