$100,000 Maintenance Fund Drive to Insure perpetual upkeep of the home of Frederick Douglass, The Abolitionist

Evansville, Indiana: N.p., 1920. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring 14 x 10 ¾ inches. Wrinkling and some water stains; very good plus.. A poster advertising a fundraising drive to preserve Cedar Hill, the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. The drive was organized by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, an early civil rights group then headed by Sallie Wyatt Stewart (1881–1951). Stewart was an educator and activist from Evansville, Illinois; she was president of the Indiana Federation of Colored Women and served on the executive board of the National Association of Colored Women, among numerous other activities. The NACWC, along with Douglass’ widow’s Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, completed their restoration of Cedar Hill in 1922, and owned the property until it was taken over by the National Parks Service in 1962.