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Source: San Francisco Call Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Roosevelt Honors a Conspicuous Negro” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: San Francisco, California Date of publication: 22 December 1901 Volume number: 91 Issue number: 22 Pagination: 22 |
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| “Roosevelt Honors a Conspicuous Negro.” San Francisco Call 22 Dec. 1901 v91n22: p. 22. |
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| James B. Parker (rewards, expressions of gratitude, etc.); McKinley assassination (government response); James B. Parker (public statements). |
| Named persons |
| Leon Czolgosz; Marcus Hanna; William E. Mason; William McKinley; James B. Parker; Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Roosevelt Honors a Conspicuous Negro
Man Who Struck Down the Assassin of McKinley Is Called to Washington.
ALTOONA, Pa., Dec. 21.—Called to
Washington by President Roosevelt to receive as a Christmas gift the first official
recognition of his bravery in knocking down Assassin Czolgosz when he shot McKinley
in Buffalo last September, James B. Parker, a negro, passed through Altoona
to-night en route to the capital. He will receive a Federal appointment that
will make him a national character.
“It’s to be a messengership in the Senate,” said
Parker to-night, “and as far as I am concerned, it comes unsolicited and unexpected.
Senators Hanna and Mason have been interesting themselves in my behalf and have
kindly solicited the place of all places I have wished for.”