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Subject: African Americans--Virginia--Danville

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Letter from Squire Taliaferro to W.T. James Requesting Penitentiary Guard Position, Danville, Virginia, March 13, 1882Letter from Squire Taliaferro to W.T. James Requesting Penitentiary Guard Position, Danville, Virginia, March 13, 1882

Letter dated March 13, 1882, from Squire Taliaferro of Danville, Virginia, to State Senator W.T. James in Richmond, Virginia. Taliaferro seeks the position of Penitentiary Guard. The second page includes a letter of recommendation highlighting Taliaferro's influence among Danville's Black community, signed by prominent Readjuster leaders including J.B. Raulston, E.W. Barksdale, John Blackwell, John A. Smith, R.L. Cohen, and Wm. H. Pleasants.

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