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557
(POLITICS.) MCKINLEY, PRESIDENT WILLIAM. PARKER, JAMES BEN-
JAMIN “BIG JIM.”
“BIG JIM” Parker the man who struck Czolgosz and
Defended President McKinley.
Photographic card, and ticket, 6
3
4
x 4
3
4
inches with
ticket, 2
1
2
x 4 inches; both toned, some soiling, small stain at the left corner of the first
piece.
Detroit, circa 1901-1902
[400/600]
When President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the 1901 Pan-
American Exposition, there was immediate pandemonium. However, it was James “Big Jim”
Parker, a 250 pound Negro waiter from Savannah who spotted the shooter, pushed his way
through the crowd and, knocked him to the ground.
558
(POLITICS—REBUBLICAN PARTY.) ADAMS, CYRUS FIELDS.
The
Republican Party and the Afro-American. A Book of Facts and Figures. “The
Republican Party is the Ship, All Else is the Sea. Frederick Douglass.”
(front
cover.) Illustrated. 64 pages. Small 8vo, original self-wrappers; some light soil to the outer
leaves.
[Chicago: Republican National Committee, 1912
[500/750]
SECOND EDITION
,
OF THIS POLITICAL FACT BOOK FOR THE
1912
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
.
RARE
,
NO COPY OF EITHER THE FIRST OR SECOND EDITION IS
LOCATED IN OCLC
.
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