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Untitled notice of speech by Black American George P. Riley, "The Colored Citizen and the Ballot," to be given at the Philharmonic Hall on April 26, 1870

 Digital Record
Identifier: Coll400_1453
Digitized version of notice
Digitized version of notice

Summary

Digitized version of an announcement for a speech by George P. Riley to be given at Philharmonic Hall in Portland, Oregon, on April 26, 1870. Riley delivered his lecture not long after a “Ratification Jubilee" was held in Portland to celebrate passage of the 15th Amendment, which extended voting rights to Black men in the United States.