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"Negro Yanks Arriving Today to be Given Rousing Welcome." n. p., 7 May 1919.
Arrangements for a welcome that should live long in the memories of the returning Negro soldiers of the Three Hundred and Fifty-first Field Artillery, who arrive in Pittsburgh at 8:30 o'clock this morning, was complete last night with the erection of a reviewing stand in Grant street in front of the City-County building.
The last details of the reception were decided upon at a meeting of the mayor's welcome committee yesterday. The soldiers will be met at the Pennsylvania station by a score of organizations and escorted down Liberty avenue, to Fifth avenue, to Dinwiddie street, to Wylie avenue, to Fifth avenue, to Grant street, to the City-County building, where Mayor E. V. Babcock will extend the official welcome of the city.
A reception will be given them at Duquesne Garden under the direction of a committee of Negro citizens of the city. The organizations to take part in the parade will form at 9:30 o'clock this morning at the Pennsylvania station as follows:
Mayor Babcock and staff. Third Pennsylvania Reserve Militia Band.
Nirella's Band.
The mayor's welcome committee and the Negro citizens' committee.
Band.
Three Hundred and fifty-first Field Artillery.
Mothers of the men of the Three Hundred and Fifty-first Field Artillery in automobiles.
Band.
Negro soldiers of Pittsburgh who have been previously discharged.
United Spanish War Veterans.
Girls' National Honor Guard.
Girls' Escort, Seventeenth zone.
Veterans of Foreign Service.
Negro Home Guards.
Negro Boy Scouts.
Negro Knights Templar.
Negro Patriarchs Militant.
Negro Knights of Pythias.
Negro Elks.
Negro W. S. S.
Red Cross organizations.
Negro [----].
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