The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.10, page xxiii, in Introduction, U. of Illinois Press

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I N TROD U C T ~ O N every opportunity to support prohibition of alcoholic beverages as a deterrent to black crime. By serving as a trustee of both Howard and Fisk and through an article in a national magazine, he sought to lay to rest the frequent charge that he opposed higher education for blacks. He championed privately the legal cases of two black farmers, Alonzo Bailey and Pink Franklin, who ran afoul of unconstitional peonage statutes. He aided efforts to save the homes of Frederick Douglass and Joel Chandler Harris. He wrote for publication tributes to the southern white moderate Edgar Gardner Murphy, the black explorer Matthew Henson, the oil millionaire H. H. Rogers, Mark Twain, Robert C. Ogden, and Bert Williams. Washington's popular history of his race, The Story of the Negro, appeared in two volumes in Dog. It is not included here because of its length, and because parts of it appeared in Volume ~ of this series. Furthermore, it did not represent his best work and much of it was ghostwritten by Robert E. Park. He was also at work on two other books, My Larger Education Digit id, a sequel to Up from Slavery, and The Man Farthest Down (id 9 ~ id, a study of the working classes of Europe. That events at Tuskegee play but a small part in this volume is the result of the wealth of documents on Washington's national role. He continued to watch every detail of the daily routine of the campus and the surrounding black community, a concern abetted by changes in the board of trustees. Seth Low as chairman of the board showed an obsessive interest in management efficiency and cost accounting of the school's agricultural and industrial departments. Under this pressure Tuskegee's most distinguished faculty member, George Washington Carver, was tested and found wanting as an administrator. Washington narrowed Carver's duties to research and teaching, despite Carver's threat to resign. Other changes in this period were the establishment of nurse training and extension work in agriculture and education. This volume, like earlier ones, owes much to the meticulous work of Sadie M. Harlan. We thank also our secretaries, Denise P. Moore, Susan M. Valenza, and Linda E. Waskey. The National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the Uni· . — xx