The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page 353, July 1910, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY · 1910 The more I observe conditions in the South, the more I am con winced that we are inclined to lay too much stress upon the physical act of voting. I hold that the colored man who has the most political influence in his community—I mean in the broadest sense— is the one with property, education, and high character, and he exerts that political influence whether he is a registered voter or not. I think you will find by close examination that in most, if not all, of the states the grandfather clause only has a limited life. It has already disappeared in several of the states. TLpS Con. 402 BTW Papers DLC. A Review of The Story of the Negro in The Nation July g, Go In his ''Story of the Negro,'' Dr. Booker T. Washington has brought out in book form papers contributed to a magazine, as well as much interesting material which he has given to the public at one time or another in his platform addresses. This is no attempt at.a scientific, historical relation of that remarkable rise of the American negro in the forty years since emancipation which so eminent a Southerner as Henry Wattersoni has declared to be without parallel in the world's history. Instead, we have an easily flowing, loosejointed, but readable narrative, bristling with interesting anecdotes and incidents in men's lives and interspersed with useful statistics on nearly all the phases of the negro's life and labor in this country. As was to be expected, Dr. Washington all but ignores the question of disfranchisement and other political issues. Those of his race who would find in these volumes any outspoken denunciations of injustice or race discrimination, or indeed any stirring note of leadership, must look elsewhere. Dr. Washington is not an agitator. His happy optimism, his cheerful confidence that by building upon the foundation of industry and social usefulness the negro will eventually come into his own, find here ready ex353