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.12 Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-vi Contents, pp. vii-xvi Introduction, pp. xvii-xx Errata, pp. xxi-xxii Symbols and Abbreviations, pp. xxiii-xxiv Documents, 1912-14, pp. 1-2 Sept. 1912, pp. 3-30 Oct. 1912, pp. 30-44 Nov. 1912, pp. 44-82 Dec. 1912, pp. 82-96 1912, pp. 96-98 Jan. 1913, pp. 99-110 Feb. 1913, pp. 110-128 Mar. 1913, pp. 128-153 Apr. 1913, pp. 153-173 May 1913, pp. 173-193 June 1913, pp. 194-226 July 1913, pp. 226-244 Aug. 1913, pp. 244-269 Sept. 1913, pp. 269-302 Oct. 1913, pp. 303-327 Nov. 1913, pp. 327-363 Dec. 1913, pp. 363-388 Jan. 1914, pp. 388-432 Feb. 1914, pp. 432-462 Mar. 1914, pp. 462-490 Bibliography, pp. 491-492 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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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers To James Hardy Diliard [Tuskegee, Ala.] October 4, 19~3 Dear Dr. DilIard: There Is more fascination and interest in this work of Negro education than there Is in hunting for gold mines. Last Saturday and Sunday ~ have been making an educational campaign through Russell and Barbour Counties. T spent last Saturday in Russell County. In all my experience in this kind of work ~ have never met with a more genuine surprise than I did in RusseD County. ~ do not believe you will find in all the South a county that is better prepared for some real advance work in the matter of Negro education than is true of Russell County. In the first place, it is almost purely an agricultural county. The white people there of Al classes are in favor of Negro education. They have one of the finest county superintendents that I have ever met. He is not only interested, but is backed up by public sentiment. White people in that county, and ~ mew the ruEng classes, boasted to me of the fact that they have more colored people registered as voters in that county than any other county in the state but one, and they were complaining of the fact that the colored people did not take more interest in registering and voting. I believe that Russell County is an ideal place for you to try the experiment of an agricultural high school. I wish that you could meet Mr. DeGraffenried,2 the county superintendent. He is a young man from one of the oldest families in ~abama. He is a large property holder and a first class gentleman. He is enthusiastic over doing something to help the Negro schools. He is just now arranging to set aside two or three weeks in which to visit every colored school in his county. One of his greatest difficulties is to get good teachers, notwithstanding he Is ready to pay a good wage. In this regard we are going to try to help him from Tuskegee. ~ very much wish you would consider seriously the matter of putting an agricultural high school in that county. I so much wish that we could spare the money to give him a Jeanes Fund supervisor. Even if we could only pay part of the salary he says that the county will pay another part. In fact he is anxious to have two supervisors, a man and a woman. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. 64 BTW Papers DLC. 3o4