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“Distinguished Colored Men,” Published by A. Muller & Co., New York, 1883.
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 Head-and-shoulders portraits of Frederick Douglass, Robert Brown Elliott, Blanche K. Bruce, William Wells Brown, Md., Prof. R.T. Greener, Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, J.H. Rainey, E.D. Bassett, John Mercer Langston, P.B.S. Pinchback, and Henry Highland Garnet.

Credit: Library of Congress

In 1883, A. Muller & Co. of New York published this lithograph of the United State’s most prominent African American leaders, including Mississippi Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Louisiana Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, and Virginia Congressman John Mercer Langston, who form an oval around revered abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. Philadelphia school principal Ebenezer D. Bassett, the nation’s first black diplomat, is pictured directly below Douglass.

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