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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DECEMBER · 191 ~ Emmett Jay Scott to Wilford H. Smith LTuskegee, Ala.] December A, 1 ~ Personal: Dear Mr. Smith: Can you find out absolutely and definitely in some official way what has become of Ulrich. Mr. Abbott's letter of December gth to youi indicated that he was unable to secure a proper bondsman. Has he yet been able to secure one? Write me at your convenience. Yours very truly, Emmett J. Scott alps Con. 439 BTW Papers DLC. tA. W. Abbott of the Children's Aid and Protective Society of the Oranges reported that Ulrich was sentenced on Dec. 3, 19~. He was placed on three-year probation and ordered to furnish a bond of $~,ooo and to pay Do a week for the support of his wife and children. In default of the bond, he was committed to the Essex County penitentiary at Caldwell, N.~., for one year or until he could furnish bond. (Abbott to Smith, Dec. 9, 19~, Copy, Con. 439, BTW Papers, DLC.) To W. A. Conner [Tuskegee, Ala.] December 29, 1 ~ Dear Sir: Answering your letter of a recent dates permit me to send you the following replies. Your question as to whether graduates of industrial schools for Negroes are contented to enter the ordinary vocations without aspiring to political and social equality has never been considered by me in just the way that you put it. The graduates of Tuskegee and other Negroes, as far as ~ know, do not generally associate together economic and political questions, hence when the subject of taking up a vocation is considered the question of political and social equality, so far as I know does not enter in. We have sent out from Tuskegee a large number of persons to work in the trades. Instead of being kept out of the trades by the objections of white men we are unable to fib the demands made upon us by white persons for our graduates to work in the trades. Since the American Federation of Labor voted last year to unionize the Negroes in trades, 4