Hear the Story of Jake Walker. Now in the Eastern Penitentiary as told by Attorney Herbert E. Millen, Member of the Legal Committee of the Phila. Branch of the N.A.A.C.P.

Philadelphia, 1927. Handbill measuring 9 x 6 inches affixed to heavy card stock. Some wear and toning, tearing to cardstock mount at verso, quite good overall and very presentable. Good. A handbill advertising a talk at the Thermopylae Baptist Church at 24th and Bolton St. in North Philadelphia, featuring Isadore Martin, Anna Gayle and Herbert Millen. The talk was organized by the Philadelphia branch of the N.A.A.C.P., and included an appearance by Isadore Martin, the influential President of the organization during this important Great Migration period. Piecing together Jake Walker’s story from contemporary newspaper accounts, he went on trial in 1922 and was convicted on charges of being an accomplice to the murder of the druggist Archer Whittker in New Kensington. According to the police, Walker voluntarily signed a statement admitting his complicity in the murder. Walker was denied a pardon by Governor Fisher on a charge of Second Degree Murder in 1927. We find no institutional copies of this flier, the only record we could find being an image online on a profile of Isadore Martin at goinnorth.org.