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Title: Admission tickets for speeches by “Greatest Colored Orator” - Mrs. Booker T. Washington’s nephew - and an early Black Harvard graduate Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1918 Description: Lecture by “Colonel” Roscoe Simmons, at Post Theatre, [Battle Creek, Michigan], Sept. 19, [1918] With Masonic lodge embossed stamp. "America's greatest colored orator...a message every true American should hear...endorsed by President Wilson...The Soldier's Truest Friend and Advisor...He will tell why we are at war, and why ALL must support the war in any way."; Grand Elocutionary Recital by Mr. E.S.Brown of Harvard…July 29, 1909 (Georgia?) Nephew of Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Roscoe Conkling Simmons’ “oratorical skills earned him a reputation as a flamboyant word artist”. Turning down a teaching job at Tuskegee to become the highest paid Black journalist in the US, he was an indefatigable public speaker for Republican candidates, forming and heading the “Lincoln League” that enrolled “every important Black politician in America.” While defeated in his own bids for electoral office, he was lionized at GOP national conventions, seconding the nominations of Hoover and Landon in 1932 and 1936. More humbly, and long before Simmons’ son became editor of the Harvard student newspaper, Edward Simuel Brown received an Education degree from Harvard in 1909, making him a star in his Georgia hometown, where, after teaching at Tuskegee and Atlanta University, the “Colored School” he served as Principal was renamed in his honor. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 247656