The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 449, Jan. 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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JAN UARY · I 9 I 2 of each race, instead, as is too often true, the best on one side the worst on the other in each race. And why should there not be this kind of co-operation? There is no social contamination, no friction, but a holy effort to help all ~~d be helped. ''I believe,'' said Mr. Marion M. Jackson ''that the solution of this whole thing is thru religion. When we all get so we can carry our religion into our business and everywhere among both races, why there will be no race problem.'' Surely this is progress. Twenty years ago there could have been no such common meeting ground as that reached by these two races. The wounds of slavery were still sensitive and the social and political bugbear was driving the two races daily farther apart. In the words of the Constitution once more: ''Is it not well for Atlantat,] for Georgia, for the South to analyze the lesson of the achievement of the Negroes in the Y.M.C.A. campaign? It shows that it pays to help make decent law-abiding citizens of the Negro, instead of taking it for granted that the whites must be taxed to treat them as cr~m~nals.~''] TM Con. 607 BTW Papers DLC. Though the manuscript is undated, the first sentence refers to the Atlanta Riot five years earlier in 1906. 2 John Brown Watson, a black man born in Smith County, Tex., in 187~, was a graduate of Brown University. After teaching at Morehouse College for four years, he became secretary of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. in ~ 908. Later, he was president of Leland College in Alexandria, La. Frederick Randolph Moore to Emmett Jay Scott New York City Jany 5, 1 2 My dear Emmett: I phoned over to Orange (County jail).2 They informed me that UIrich preferred remaining to giving up $~s.oo weekly which his wife demanded. If he agreed to this he could secure the bail. The bad] required is $~ooo.oo. His trial has not yet been set. So you see it is stubborn tnJess on his part. ~ am going to D.C. tomorrow Saturday night to try to get some money from agents. WiB be there until Tuesday afternoon. Can be 449