The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 354, Nov. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers From Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. New Haven, Conn., November 2, 1 ~ My dear Mr. Washington: ~ enclose herewith for your confidential information a proposal which ~ expect to bring before the PhelpsStokes Trustees at their next meeting. You will see that it Is an attempt to help in the solution of the negro problem from a different side than has been emphasized in the past, namely by training at a great Southern university a group of Southern white students who will investigate the negro and his problems with the view to assisting in improving conditions. ~ have talked the matter over carefully with Dr. Diliard and Dr. Alderman who fee] that the plan is a very unportant one. ~ would appreciate your estimate of it and any suggestions that you may make regarding it. If successful ~ hope we may be able to establish a similar fellowship at the University of Georgia, perhaps elsewhere. feel that the fellowship will result In accomplishing three purposes: First. The mere existence of the fellowship at a Southern white uni~rersity under state auspices will be significant. Second. The researches of these fellows should result In bra ng together a body of facts regarding tile negro that will be of matenal assistance in solving his problem. Third. The fellows should form a bocly of men who would be of great assistance in the future in leading In venous educational and sociological movements in the South. Very truly yours, Anson Phelps Stokes TLS Con. 439 BTW Papers DLC. To Samuel Bratton Donnellyt Tuskegee, Ala.] November 6, 1 ~ My dear Sir: ~ want to thank you for the courageous stand which yol} have taken in relation to the colored employees of the Government Printing O~ce.2 The two fundamental rights guaranteed to the Negro by emancipation was the tight to own property and to freely sell his 354