Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15 Vol.14: Index           All Writings Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15
Volume 1: Autobiographical Writings Volume 2: 1860-1889 Volume 3: 1889-1895 Volume 4: 1895-1898 Volume 5: 1899-1900 Volume 6: 1901-1902 Volume 7: 1903-1904 Volume 8: 1904-1906 Volume 9: 1906-8 Volume 10: 1909-11 Volume 11: 1911-12 Volume 12: 1912-14 Volume 13: 1914-15 Volume 14: Cumulative Index   BTWP Vol.11 Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-vi Contents, pp. vii-xviii Introduction, pp. xix-xxii Symbols and Abbreviations, pp. xxiii-xxiv Documents, 1911-12, pp. 1-2 Mar. 1911, pp. 3-73 Apr. 1911, pp. 73-119 May 1911, pp. 119-176 June 1911, pp. 177-248 July 1911, pp. 248-288 Aug. 1911, pp. 288-299 Sept. 1911, pp. 299-320 Oct. 1911, pp. 320-353 Nov. 1911, pp. 353-379 Dec. 1911, pp. 379-449 Jan. 1912, pp. 449-460 Feb. 1912, pp. 461-481 Mar. 1912, pp. 482-509 Apr. 1912, pp. 509-531 May 1912, pp. 531-547 June 1912, pp. 548-555 July 1912, pp. 555-569 Aug. 1912, pp. 569-588 Bibliography, pp. 589-590 The page presentation framework of the Booker T. Washington papers is designed to provide researchers worldwide with searchable access to the thousands of pages comprising the fourteen volumes, most of which are out of print. Adapted from the National Academy Press's Open Book framework, this framework allows searching down to the page level, provides sorting of search results chronologically, enables easy navigation across multiple volumes, and allows page-by-page local printing (via PDF) of every page.

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MARCH · I 9 I I From William Ashley Sunday1 Lima Ohio Mar c~ 19I I Your explanation regarding the unfortunate affair of Sunday night is believed and accepted by your hosts of friends throughout the west. We have unbounded confidence in your innocence and have no faith In reports to the contrary. ~ gave public expression to this sentiment before six thousand people assembled in religious meeting tonight. W A Sunday TWSr BTW Papers ATT. William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (~862-~935), a former professional baseball player (~883 - o), became an evangelist in the Lagos and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in ~ 903. Alfred B. Cruikshank~ to Seth :Low New York, N.Y., Mar. 2 I, 191 ~ Dear Sir: I am glad to see that you have actively taken up the task of vindicating Dr. Washington from the preposterous charges made against him by the UIrichs. For the sake of the cause which Dr. Washington represents, we are all interested in having these stories put down as false and malicious. I see by the newspapers that UIrich now says that Dr. Washington assaulted him in the first place without provocation. I also gather that UIrich made no charge of this kind on Sunday night at the police station at the time the parties appeared before the police lieutenant. Had Dr. Washington assaulted Ulrich, as he now claims, he would undoubtedly have made that assault the basis of his original complaint, instead of the absurd complaint of peeping through a keyhole. It Is perfectly clear to my mind that this last story of an assault upon UIrich is an afterthought; in other words, a downright lie, gotten up in an attempt to justify his own atrocious assault. The mere fact that UIrich has changed his story in this essential particular is convincing, and in IS