Draft:Composers etx


 * Cleveland G. Allen, New York, N. Y.
 * Kathleen P. Howard, Birmingham, Ala.,
 * J. Wesley Jones, Chicago, Ill.,
 * Jennie Cheatham Lee Jennie C. Lee, Tuskegee, Ala., She was music department director and led the choir (its second leader) at Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald wrote her a letter thanking her for her work and including a gift of $100 corrsepondence to her She collected photographs taken at the school.
 * Nellie M. Mundy, New York, N. Y., Is the photo album noted in this book her? Alumnus of Michigan State Normal School. Taught at Calumet?


 * J. C. Coleman
 * H. J. Capehart
 * James M. Ellis James Ellis J. M. Ellis lawyer lived in Oak Hill. T. L. Sweeney and J. H. Love were reported to be the only other "Colored" attorney in Fayette County.
 * E. H. Harper
 * T. G. Nutter
 * C. Payne Christopher H. Payne
 * H. H. Railey superintendant of West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home all of West Virginia also John V. Coleman
 * W. R. Douglass
 * A. H. Roberts
 * S. B. Turner
 * Robert B. Jackson all of Illinois
 * J. C. Hawkins of New York
 * E. A. Johnson, N. Y.
 * W. M. Moore, Missouri


 * F. M. Roberts all of California and J. M. Ryan of the District of Columbia.


 * E. Howard Harper succeded by his wife Minnie Buckingham Harper, appointed by the governor after his death Dec. 12 1927

During 1925-1929 the following "Negroes" were elected members of state legislatures:

California legislature Senate F. M. Roberts, editor, re-elected; Illinois legislature, to Senate A. H. Richards (A. H. Roberts?), lawyer, re-elected; to House, G. W. Blackwell, lawyer, W. B. Douglass, lawyer, re-elected; H. B. Gaines, law- yer C. E. Griffin, re-elected; G. T. Kersey, re-elected; W. E. King, lawyer, re-elected; W. J. Warfield; Kan- sas legislature, to House W. M. Blount, physician; Missouri legislature, to House, G. M. Allen, lawyer; J. A. Davis, lawyer; L. A. Knox, lawyer; W. M. Moore, business man, re-elected; New Jersey legislature, to House, J. L. Baxter F. S. Hargrave, physician; Nebraska legislature, to House, T. L. Barnett, A. A. McMillan, physician; J. A. Singleton, dentist; New York legislature, to House, L. Perkins, lawyer; F. E. Rivers, lawyer; Ohio legislature, to House, E. W. B. Curry, minister; P. B. Jackson, lawyer; Pennsylvania legislature, to House, W. H. Fuller, lawyer; West Virginia legislature, to House, H. J. Capehart, lawyer, re- elected; E. H. Harper, re-elected; T. E. Hill.

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