Distinguished Colored Men Neck Tie

A poster celebrating the pioneers of what would become the American Civil Rights Movement. From left to right: Robert Brown Elliot (Former member of congress), Henry Highland Garnett (Minister of Liberia), Wm. Wells Brown M.D. (author of "The Rising sun"), Prof. R.T. Greener (dean of Howard University), Blanche K. Bruce (former U.S. Senator), P.B.S. Pinchback (former Governor of Louisiana), Frederick Douglass (Colored champion of freedom), R.T. Rev. Richard Allen (Bishop of the African M.E. Church), John Mercer Langston (Minister of Haiti), E.D. Bassett (former minister of Haiti), J.H. Rainey (former member of congress)