The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.12, page 82, Dec. 1912, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers those matters in which the negro has been better treated in America than anywhere else in the world. Despite aD any one has said or can say In regard to the injustice and unfair treatment of the people of my race at the hands of the white men in this country, ~ venture to say that there is no example In history of the people of one race who have had the assistance, the direction, and the sympathy of another race in Al its efforts to rise to such an extent as the negro ~ the United States. Notwithstanding all the defects in our system of dealing with him, the negro in this country owns more property, lives in better houses, In a larger measure encouraged In business, wears better clothes, eats better food, has more school-houses and churches, more teachers and ministers, than any similar group of negroes anywhere else in the world. What has been accomplished in the past years, however, is merely an indication of what can be done in the future. As white and black learn day by day to adjust, In a spirit of justice and fair play, those interests which are individual and racial, and to see and fee} the importance of those fundamental interests which are common, so will both races grow ant] prosper. In the long run no md d~ and no race can succeed which sets itself at war against the common good. The Century, 85 (Nov. 19 ~ 2 ), 4~55. ~ Reuben S. Lovinggood was president of a black school, Samuel Houston College in Austin, Tex., from ~ 903 to ~ 9 ~ 7. 2 A. A. Gunky, a lawyer of Monroe, La., was a champion of better public schools that state and a member of the Louisiana Education Association. From Robert Ezra Park Wollaston, Mass. December 3, ~ 9 ~ 2 My dear Mr Washington: ~ read with interest Mr Hollander'st letter in regard to the proposed investigation of the results of education at Tuskegee as shown in our students. ~ think such a systematic investigadon would be a fine thing but ~ do not see where the science comes in. 82