New York Evening Post_March 16, 1907

Newspaper article in two parts. Handwritten notation in black ink under second half column states "New York Eve Post Mar 16 - 07". Article goes into the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Tercentennial. "Negro Exhibit for Jamestown/ Series of Tableaux Illustrating the History of the Race Prepared by Colored Woman sculptor - Studies of Life from Landing of Boatload of African Slaves in 1619 to Present Day - The Negro as Soldier, Farmer, Mechanic, and Banker. Washington, March 16 - An agreement was entered into yesterday between the executive committee, designated by the general Government, to prepare a negro exhibit for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition and Miss Meta Vaux Warrick of Philadelphia, by which she is to furnish a series of tableaux illustrative of the history of the negro race from the landing of the first boatload of African slaves on the James River in 1619 to the present day. It is Miss Warrick's plan to trace in chronological order the progress of the negro people in all the arts of civilization. There will be fifteen model groups, the figures to be one-fourth life-size, making in all an exhibit covering more than 1,500 feet of floor space. The studies of negro life will include the landing of the slaves at Jamestown, negroes working in a cotton field, suggestive of the race's industrial beginning; an escaping slave, typifying the instinct for freedom; the first African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded at Philadelphia in 1816 by Richard Allen in a blacksmith shop, illustrating the awakening of religious spirit; the negro as a solider, testifying to the valor of the black man in all the wars of the republic; as the faithful protector of the family of the absent master, a tribute to the loyality of the slave to what he regarded as a sacred trust. Further will be shown the start for citizenship, following emancipation, and the thirst for education and enlightenment, reflected in the primative schoolhouse and a typical body of negro students. The constructive period of the race's history will show the negro, as a farmer, as a mechanic, and as a banker. Then will come the era of the higher mental and moral development, including a representation of the modern race church, the negro at home, the negro poet, orator, painter, and physician, and improved community life, bringing into requisition a number of familiar characters who have made a distinctive impressi__[sic] upon the history of the negro people. Miss Warrick is a young colored woman, a representative of the best element and advanced possibilities of her race. Her education was acquired in the Drexel School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and further courses were taken by her at several of the leading art institutes in Paris, where her reproductions won marked favor at the hands of some of the best critics. A small series of a like nature was displayed at the Paris Exposition, and attracted great attention from the social economists of the Old World. Congress has appropriated $100,000 to aid the negro exhibit. The Negro Building is classic structure, situated not far from the main entrance to the grounds. It was planned by W. Sidney Pittman, a negro architect, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, and is being erected by Rolling & Everett, negro contractors, of Lynchburg, Va. It will cost $40,000. Among the novel exhibits which the States will send are a model town in Mississippi owned by, composed of, and officered entirely by negroes, and an exhibit from Ohio, costing $20,000 in which negroes will be making watches during the Exposition."

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"Negro Exhibit for Jamestown," New York Evening Post, March 16, 1907, 2

1907