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Booker T. Washington correspondence
- Title
- Booker T. Washington correspondence, 1879-1913 (bulk 1889-1913)
- Author
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 182 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Additional Authors
- Washington, Margaret James Murray, 1865-1925.
- Description
- .2 linear feet
- Summary
- Material consists of letters from Washington to Emily Howland, a benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute. Letters cover a wide variety of issues, including requests for financial assistance, progress reports, and annual reports of the Board of Directors of the Institute, as well as informal reports on his activities. The letters reveal frank expressions of his feelings regarding criticism he received from blacks, 1904; his surprise at being asked to speak at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, 1895, where he delivered his now-famous accommodationist speech; and a forceful statement of support for Black people's efforts to protect their constitutional rights, 1900. Also, several letters in which he discussed the administrative problems at the Kowaliga School, a school for black children in Alabama, 1896-1898, and the response to his autobiographical articles which appeared in "Outlook Magazine." Letters to Francis Jackson Garrison, son of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, deal with diverse subjects including the conflict between Washington and William Monroe Trotter, editor of the "Boston Globe." Letters regarding the Brownsville affair, 1906, and the Atlanta riot of 1906. Also, letters from Mrs. Margaret Washington to Emily Howland. Of note, is an 1879 letter Washington wrote to a patron, thanking him for sending law books that he requested so that he could continue his studies. He also mentions going to Hampton to teach in two weeks.
- Subjects
- Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
- African Americans > Education
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- Black author
- Exhibitions > Georgia > Atlanta
- Brownsville (Tex.) > Social conditions
- Atlanta (Ga.) > Social conditions
- African American universities and colleges > Alabama > Tuskegee
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Riots > Georgia > Atlanta
- Tuskegee Institute
- Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
- African American teachers
- Alabama > Social conditions
- Howland, Emily, 1827-1929
- Kowaliga School (Tallapoosa County, Ala.)
- Speeches > Georgia > Atlanta
- Letters (correspondence)
- Schools > Alabama
- Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Genre/Form
- Letters (correspondence)
- Speeches – Georgia – Atlanta.
- Source (note)
- Donald Fowle (Theatre Collection)
- Biography (note)
- Educator, writer, founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 182
- OCLC
- 122575935
- Author
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
- Title
- Booker T. Washington correspondence, 1879-1913 (bulk 1889-1913)
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Biography
- Educator, writer, founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Washington, Margaret James Murray, 1865-1925.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 182