Open letter to President McKinley
By: by colored people of Massachusetts
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Description: A letter from prominent African American citizens of Boston to President McKinley protesting presidential inaction and toleration of racial prejudice, discrimination, and recent violence against blacks in the South. They plead for a guarantee of all civil rights for US blacks as set forth in the Constitution, especially in the South, to enable African Americans to rise out of poverty, ignorance, and social degradation. The letter is signed by several prominent Boston African Americans.
Notes: "The Colored People of Boston and vicinity, through the Colored National League ... addressed an Open Letter to President McKinley."--P. 1.