Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Newspaper clipping, 1929.
- Credit
- Barbara DePriest clipping collection
Newspaper clipping, 1929.
Newspaper clipping, 1929.
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