'THE REVEILLE CLUB' OF BLACK WAR VETERANS

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'THE REVEILLE CLUB' OF BLACK WAR VETERANS
Pair of printed menus from the 'Ninth Annual Dinner' of 'The Reveille Club', held at O'Keefe's Restaurant in Oswego, New York on June 21, 1941, 4pp. small. 8vo., with crossed American flags shown on the first page. The names of the club's 22 members are printed on the menu, and one of the menus bears the pencil signatures of 17 of them within. The menus have glue stains on different sides where they were affixed to heavier stock, otherwise very good. The Reveille Club was founded in 1932 by black war veterans in order to celebrate and recognize each other's accomplishments. The main mission of membership was friendship. According to the group's certificate of incorporation of 1953, the purposes of the Club were to 'bring together persons of good moral character with similar intellectual and social aspirations'; 'countenance and promote among its members, from all walks of life, faith in one another...fulfill the desire to meet as a group...; and 'maintain a club house'.