Negro Exhibit at Exposition
July 28, 1906
Summary
There is a request to devote a new building towards the Negro Exhibition in Jamestown.
Transcription
Negro Exhibit at Exposition
Would Contrast Men From Heart of Africa With Persistent Race
Darkies Must do all Work.-- Request of the Negroes Met With Rebuff by Washington Officials.
Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch July 22d, 1906.
Washington, D.C., July 21.--
The government commission, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy, has not consented to the request of the officers of the Negro Development and Expositions Company that the building which will be devoted to the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition be designed by a negro architect and erected by negro builders.
It is by no means certain that the commissioners will consent to this request. The full commission has not considered the matter with the officers of the Negro Development and Exposition Company, but Giles B. Jackson, of Richmond, the director-general of the company, has been informed of the attitude of the commission, and he and the executive board of the company, all Negroes, had a talk with Mr. Edwards, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and secretary of the commission, yesterday. Mr. Edwards informed them of the tentative attitude of the commission. Owing to the absence of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, who are out of the city, no definite decision was reached.
Would Contrast Men From Heart of Africa With Persistent Race
Darkies Must do all Work.-- Request of the Negroes Met With Rebuff by Washington Officials.
Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch July 22d, 1906.
Washington, D.C., July 21.--
The government commission, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy, has not consented to the request of the officers of the Negro Development and Expositions Company that the building which will be devoted to the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition be designed by a negro architect and erected by negro builders.
It is by no means certain that the commissioners will consent to this request. The full commission has not considered the matter with the officers of the Negro Development and Exposition Company, but Giles B. Jackson, of Richmond, the director-general of the company, has been informed of the attitude of the commission, and he and the executive board of the company, all Negroes, had a talk with Mr. Edwards, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and secretary of the commission, yesterday. Mr. Edwards informed them of the tentative attitude of the commission. Owing to the absence of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, who are out of the city, no definite decision was reached.
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Emma Roberts
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“Negro Exhibit at Exposition,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed March 21, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/455.