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The Spider 1897 "Dick Richard"
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Title
The Spider 1897 "Dick Richard"
Description
This short story, appearing in the 1897 edition of the University of Richmond’s yearbook The Spider, details the life of Dick Ricard: a Black boy with a talent for yodeling. Writing in a mocking, paternalistic tone, the author L. R. Hamberlin exclaims that Dick “had no soul” and “at the first opportunity took to crime as a duck to water.” The story concludes with Dick narrowly escaping his sentence to the State penitentiary. A racist caricature of Dick Richards accompanies the short story on page 32.
Creator
Source
Virginia Baptist Historical Society, The Spider (1897): 76. Available online via the UR Scholarship Repository.
Publisher
The Spider, University of Richmond
Date
1897
Relation
Language
English
Type
Identifier
Spider.31-1897.pdf
Coverage
Richmond (Va.)
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Citation
Hamberlin, L. R., “The Spider 1897 "Dick Richard",” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed May 24, 2025, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/3373.