The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 210, Jan. 1915, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Passers Let me repeat that it Is unfair at this time, when we are Al striving to bring about racial harmony and peace, to raise a question which Is calculated to stir up needless strife, and ~ cannot fee] that the best people in the South approve of any such bill. Lastly, the passing of such an unjust law will cripple the missionary and educational work which we are trying to do in Africa and elsewhere. For a number of years some of the brightest young people from Africa and elsewhere have been coming to this country to receive training to fit them to go back and help their people, and this they have done in an effective manner. All this, ~ understand, will be stopped by the passing of this law. This measure Is not political or sectional, and ~ hope that all people wiD see the justice of asking Congress to refrain from perpetrating this unjust act upon my race. Certainly we have enough to contend with already without having this additional handicap and discouragement placed in our pathway. Booker T. Washington New York World, Taxi. 6, 19~5, 8. The letter appeared In several major news papers. The headline was added by the New York World. From Harvey Johnson Baltimore, Md. January 2nd., 19~5 Dear Sir: ~ have just now finished reading your most deeply interesting, carefully kept, and very important record of mob violence in this country. Dr. Washington, let me thank ant! congratulate you, for ~ believe that this record kept by you, and sent forth throughout the world by the Associated Press, will do more to call attention to the great crime of mob law, caned lynching, than anything within my recollection that has been put forth as a remedy, since records have been kept. There have been otherts,] many of them, carefully prepared, but they were not from Tuskegee, nor were they by Dr. Washington. Doctor, ~ have always admired the great work that you have done, by way of the phenomenal achievements made in the building up of that great institution over which you have the honor to presicle, and over which you have presided so long, and so honorably, and achieved so woo