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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NOVEMBER · I 9 I 2 feel that you can do it, we beg you to teD us so frankly and put an end mercifully to our expectations. Cordially yours, W M~inIay Francis ]. Gr~mkE Archibald H. GrimkE TLS Con. 58 BTW Papers DLC. Extracts from an Address at the Opening of the Mounc! Bayou Cotton-Oil MilIt Mound Bayou, Mississippi Nov. path, ~ 9 ~ 2 ~ count it a great privilege to be permitted to take part in the formal opening of the Mound Bayou Oil Mill and Manufacturing Company. The opening of this Oil Mill marks a unique and distinct step In the progress of the Negroes of America. It represents, in my opinion, the largest and most serious undertaking in a purely commercial and manufacturing enterprise In the history of our race. ~ congratulate Charles Banks and his board of directors and the stockholders on account of the success that they have attained to' In banging this enterprise to its present degree of completeness. Mr. Banks and those who have stood by him in this movement are entitled to the lasting praise of the people of this country. In the same spirit ~ wish to congratulate the white people of the state of Mississippi and at the same time to thank them for the encouragement and assistance which they have given to this ente~pnse. Further than this, ~ wish to congratulate and thank the white people of Mississippi because of the fact that they have been liberal and farsighted enough to encourage the building up in the heart of the state of this distinctive and unique Negro town, a town that is a credit to the people who live in Mound Bayou, to the Negro race in Mississippi, and to every white man in this commonwealth. ~ need not acid in this presence that just in the degree that the Negro in this state is given an opportunity to become prosperous, intelligent, happy and contented, in the same degree will the white man prosper, and [in] the same degree will peace and good order be maintained between black 55