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    <abstract id="aspace_4f20d90408b63fa15e4f5f92a9e0fc58">Copies of correspondence and business records of Charles H. James, founder of the James Produce Company, one of the first totally black owned and managed businesses in West Virginia. Correspondents include: Governor J.J. Cornwell, John W. Davis, and Theodore Roosevelt.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James Produce Company Papers, A&amp;M 2336, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="local_LC">African Americans  -- Business enterprises</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.</subject>
    <subject source="local">Armistice -- 1918</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011739" source="lcsh">Baptists</subject>
    <subject source="local">Boy Scouts of America - Colored Boy Scouts of Charleston.</subject>
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    <subject source="ingest">Elections - 1924.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">James Produce Company</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80049704" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">National Afro-American Democratic League</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94101004" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">National Negro Business League (U.S.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Negro Democratic Club of West Virginia</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">West Virginia Collegiate Institute</corpname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00100593" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96080097" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Davis, John W. (John Warren), 1888-1980</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88218900" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">James, Charles H.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Morton, Ferdinand Q.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Roosevelt, Theodore.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94100673" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952</persname>
    <persname source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Holsey, Albon L.</persname>
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