Joe Grawe Collection. L-R: Shorty Webster, John Perkins, Del St. John, Bill Hall (who had a ready to wear store on East Bremer where Harrison 5 & 10 store is now. This was the Motherless Wedding in the old Nichols Opera.
NOTICE:
This photograph is racially offensive by today’s standards and an example of a long legacy of cultural practices meant to ridicule, dehumanize and disempower African American people. These photos participate in the racism that was normalized and accepted by the dominant culture, but that has always been critiqued by Black Americans. We include this photo in the archive to ensure that past cultural practices are remembered, interpreted, and dismantled.
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Joe Grawe Collection. L-R: Shorty Webster, John Perkins, Del St. John, Bill Hall (who had a ready to wear store on East Bremer where Harrison 5 & 10 store is now. This was the Motherless Wedding in the old Nichols Opera.
NOTICE: This photograph is racially offensive by today’s standards and an example of a long legacy of cultural practices meant to ridicule, dehumanize and disempower African American people. These photos participate in the racism that was normalized and accepted by the dominant culture, but that has always been critiqued by Black Americans. We include this photo in the archive to ensure that past cultural practices are remembered, interpreted, and dismantled.
Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx Accession No. 89I0016