[African Americana]: [Tennessee]:

Concert. Grammar School Department of Union City Colored School...[caption title].

[Union City, Tn.]: 1901. Broadside handbill, 8.75 x 5 inches, printed on thin pink paper. Old creases, minor staining and edge wear. Very good. Item #6093

A rare, and perhaps unrecorded program printing the order of events at a concert performed by students in the grammar school department of the Union City Colored School, an African-American institution in the remote northwest corner of Tennessee. Among the musical pieces and "recitations" here is a "Talk on Woman Suffrage," a song titled, "Sorrowful Tale of a Hired Girl," and an oration by James Totton of "Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg." The performances were reviewed in the April 26, 1901 issue of The Commercial Courier, a white Union City newspaper, which noted that "There were a number of white people present. The effort showed that much care had been taken in preparation, the entire program being well handled. The colored boys and girls showed the benefits of culture to their race." An insightful and ephemeral program, with no copies listed in OCLC.

Price: $450