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EULALIA in ATLANTA

Tea Pad poster

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Support Tea Pad by purchasing the Eulalia poster!

Look closely at this poster. Four women. Four skin tones. One room.

That's the whole idea behind Tea Pad, and it's why the Tea Pad poster exists.

In the 1920s and '30s, a tea pad was a speakeasy-style room where people of every racial and ethnic background gathered around jazz — free from the violence of a federal prohibition campaign whose harshest and longest consequences fell on Black and Brown communities. Those rooms were among the few places in American life where that mix of people could simply be together.

The original artwork repeats one woman in four palettes because that room was never meant for one kind of woman. It still isn't.

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Tea Pad’s logo name, “Eulalia,” was inspired by American jazz great Cab Calloway’s mother, Martha Eulalia Reed. Cab grew up in West Baltimore's Sugar Hill neighborhood, which was considered Black society's political, cultural, and business hub in the early 1900s. His mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a Morgan State College (now Morgan State University) graduate who taught school in Baltimore. Eulalia underscores our mission to break down barriers to entry and advancement - no matter the gender or race - via education.

"When society tells my daughters that their lips are too big or their hair is too curly, I will point to this poster and tell them that Black and Brown skin girls are at the top.” - A Tea Pad Supporter

The first Tea Pad scholarship was the Tea Pad Scholarship for Black Entrepreneurship at Morgan State University.

The Eulalia Poster

Support the tea pad mission

EULALIA in ATLANTA

Tea Pad poster

eulalia

The Eulalia Poster

Support the tea pad mission

EULALIA in ATLANTA

Tea Pad poster

eulalia

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