Description
The 1985 20th Anniversary issue of Delegate magazine published by MelPat Associates. The cover has a white background featuring a grid of twenty-eight (28) portrait photographs. Under each photograph the name of the man or woman pictured is printed in red. At the upper left of the cover is a red ribbon badge with white text on a black background. It reads [1985]. To the right of the ribbon is [DELEGATE] in decorative blue & white block lettering with [20th ANNIVERSARY] printed underneath in red. Red text in the lower right corner reads [WASHINGTON / The Seat of / Government / & Education / 1900-1985 / Page 359]. The spine of the magazine is white with blue text that reads [DELEGATE, 1985 - The 9th Year of the 3rd Century].The magazine’s content opens with an untitled editorial note recounting the events since the first issue of Delegate was published in 1965. This is followed by a masthead, set in white text against a black background reading [DELEGATE, 1983], and a table of contents.The content then continues with profiles of African American business organizations, business leaders, events, community organizations, sororities, fraternities, doctors, dentists, politicians, actors, and journalists. This includes the NAACP, National Urban League, Bottle and Cork Club, Sigma Phi Rho Fraternity, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Black Achievers in Industry, The Northeasterners, National Association of Black Women Attorneys, The Beaux Arts Ball, Interracial Council for Business Opportunity, National Urban Affairs Council, Raymond A. Jordan Jr, Frederick Douglass...
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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anne B. Patrick and the family of Hilda E. Stokely
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Smithsonian InstitutionKeywords
- Advertising
- African American
- African Americans
- Alexander, Leslie L
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc
- Association For The Study Of African American Life And History
- Association Of Black Women Attorneys
- Associations And Institutions
- Basie, Count
- Business
- Carats, Inc
- Chi Delta Mu Fraternity, Inc
- Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc
- Communities
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
- Fraternal Organizations
- Fraternities
- Government
- Hbc Us (Historically Black Colleges And Universities)
- Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc
- Jordan, Raymond A
- Journalism
- Labor
- Labor Unions
- Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority, Inc
- Mass Media
- Mays, Benjamin Elijah
- Mel Pat Associates
- Men
- Morehouse College
- National Association For Equal Opportunity In Higher Education
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- National Association Of Market Developers
- National Bankers Association
- National Coalition Of 100 Black Women
- National Medical Association
- National Newspaper Publishers Association
- National Sorority Of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc
- National United Church Ushers Association Of America, Inc
- National Urban Affairs Council
- National Urban League
- Northside Center For Child Development, Inc
- One Hundred Black Men, Inc
- Patrick, C. Melvin
- Political Organizations
- Politics
- Prince Hall Freemasonry
- Professional Organizations
- Religious Groups
- Shriners International
- Sigma Phi Rho Fraternity
- Smithsonian Institution
- Social Life And Customs
- Society
- Sororities
- The Links, Incorporated
- Top Ladies Of Distinction, Inc
- U.S. History, 1969 2001
- Universities
- Urban Life
- Women
