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In this letter, Mayme Moore and J.E. Farmer of the Young Democrats Club of Sedgwick County--Colored Division, thank Governor Walter Huxman for his efforts to give African Americans "the advantages that have been heretofore denied us."
Creator: Moore, Mayme
Date: August 19, 1938
Item Number: 216924
Call Number: Governor's Files, Governor Huxman, Box 26.5, Folder 4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216924
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Huxman, Walter Augustus
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930-1945 (US_Benchmark 2) - Race and ethnic relations (Indicator 7)
Date - 1930s - 1938
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Huxman, Walter Augustus
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans
People - Notable Kansans - Huxman, Walter Augustus, 1887-1972
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/216924