AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY S. G. ATKINS, PRESIDENT OF THE SLATER INDUSTRIAL AND STATE NORMAL SCHOOL ("For Colored Youth of Both Sexes")
- 1 page On Slater letterhead
- Philadelphia , 1900
Philadelphia, 1900. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Blank verso has paper residue (where once mounted), paper is quite tanned along left margin, with creasing, few short tears and small chips (in blank margins), else a good copy. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Dr. Simon Green Atkins, the son of former slaves, founded the Slater Industrial and State Normal School, in 1892, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The school became Winston-Salem Teacher's College in 1925, and it was the first African-American institute in America to offer degrees in elementary education.
Reading in part: "Dear Friend- I hope we may see you and some of your friends at the meeting to which you will find and (sic) invitation enclosed( not present).
Our students will also appear in Association Hall Germantown, the following evening...Your kindly interest in our cause will be greatlyt appreciated...
Reading in part: "Dear Friend- I hope we may see you and some of your friends at the meeting to which you will find and (sic) invitation enclosed( not present).
Our students will also appear in Association Hall Germantown, the following evening...Your kindly interest in our cause will be greatlyt appreciated...