Members of the Afro-American Council, in session at St. Paul

Black and white photograph of members of the Afro-American Council, in session at St. Paul

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National Afro-American Council meeting, St. Paul, 1902. Booker T. Washington stands in the front row, hat in hand; McGhee stands two rows behind him. To Washington's left, Bishop Alexander Walters, then Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Over Walters's right shoulder, T. Thomas Fortune; over his left. W. E. B. Du Bois. Emmett Scott is behind Wells-Barnett.

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