MEDIA Show Media Credit: Library of VirginiaOriginal Author: UnknownCreated: Probably 1894Medium: Campaign buttonCampaign Button for John Mitchell Jr.A button promotes the candidacy of John Mitchell Jr. for the post of supreme chancellor of the Virginia branch of the Colored Knights of Pythias, an African American secret fraternal order. Mitchell won the election in 1894.FEATURED INJohn Jr. Mitchell (1863–1929)