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Making Progress in Their Columbian Ex position Work for the Keystone state. We are glad to see that our colored citizens are to have a fair chance and are likely to be well represented at the Columbian exposition, and that in furtherance of this end, the governor of Pennsylvania has appointed Mr. Robert Purvis , member of the Penn sylvania commission, and Miss Florence Lewis—a graduate of the Institute for Colored Youth—on the women’s com mittee of Philadelphia county. We are to learn that the colored people are responded heartily to these oppor tunities, and that Miss Lewis has al ready received a fine showing of the work of colored women in art, educa tion, literature, etc. “The fair will bring out the fact that 96 per cent of all colored schools are crowded with children.” Mr. Purvis has had ‘marked success” in collecting inventions made by colored people, two important ones being a machine for desiccating cocoa nut, and a bag-making machine which will turn out 80,000 bags a day. There were a number of colored inventors among the exhibitors of the Centennial exposition in Philadelpia, we remem ber. The sometimes scornful charge of being only an imitative race will be well met by such examples of inventive power. —Kate Field's Washington.
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Cleveland Gazette
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 24, 1892
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