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...
Title page from Paul Jennings' memoir "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison."
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- University of North Carolina, Documenting the American South
Title page from Paul Jennings' memoir "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison."
Title page from Paul Jennings' memoir "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison."
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