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Pasadena, LA, ?'A nice lliing happened to mu' on Marc.li I8t.li Mll77),? wril o K ichmond I >.11 I.Ill', I' cl low I .IlK.T-1111 > ol the National Sculpture Suciclv.
I lie I diversity el Soullierii Mississippi in I I ,il t lesburg had 1 )< > 11 111 tHiiof mv liroii/.es. ' I In' Negro Looks Ahead" and I In; Awakening of Alrica? for
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iheir iiiuseum. They sent, me a round trip airline ticket and reserved a pleasant. room lor me al the 1 lolitlav Inn so 11i<il I could attend the unveiling.
"I expected lo enjoy I he trip, but J v\a~ not prepared lor ulial occurred at,
I lie ceremonies. 1 ? irsL 1 u as w elcomed I>\ 1 hi? Alro- \mericaii Society anil pre--enled with a liron/e plaipieol appreciation. I lie next speaker n,h the president ol llie I mversitv willi an even larger plaque. I heii the- Mavor ottered me the key I o t I If ( 11 \ . Alter llii' a ii ? pi( ?-< ? i it al I \ i? ol the (io\erinir read a I e 11 (? r welcoming mi' m the I 1,1 me ill l I ie pi -o pie ol I he S| ,i| e.
\ (I,i\ or luo lal it I w a' e?i orled lo llav N. Louis where I was horn, and driven a Ion? a -t reel | ha I had just been ii.iiiumI alier me. I he Mavor had "iven me ,1 key lo the I 11 v la~l time I VIMled II,iv SI. Louis. Ml he probably tell a second one would he m i peri 11 ions.
\ little 11 ii ire I haii a mouth later, on April J~>. the hroir/.e husl ol "George
Washington Carver? hv Marlin?- "as unveileil at Tuskegee Institute in Ala-bamn. In October ol last year the bust joined those- ol' (l(i oilier men and women in the I fall of I-?ame lor Great Americans thus doubling the Mali?s black population lo a total ol two.
Dr. Carver was named head ol Tu>-kegee?s school ol agriculture by the 1 n-stitute?s founder and president, Booker T. Washington, also born a slave. A bust of the latter was placcd in the 1 hill of Fame in 1915. ll was sculptured bv Richmond Barthe.
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Barthe, Richmond Sculpture-Magazine-1978
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