The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 237, Feb. 1915, U. of Illinois Press

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FEBRUARY · I 9 I 5 From Monroe Nathan Work Tuskegee Institute Ala Feb 6~, ~5 When amount that Negroes pay in every fonn in taxes the amount that they give directly for support of colleges and normal schools and for improvement of public schools it Is probable that they contribute every year more than eight million dollars for their own education. Morns ''Monroe] N. Work I-WSr Con. 664 BTW Papers DLC. An Entry in a Notebook of Ray Stannard Baker . [New York City] Feby 9 I 9I5 I spent the evening with Booker T. Washington. He Is stopping at the Biltmore Hotel—one of the palatial new places. He Is older seems older than when ~ last saw him, ho hair growing thin an the top of his head: but gives the same Repression as ever of bigness of character, patience, humor. After talking with these agitating negroes of the North—very sharp & able they are, too, he appears like some big-natured peasant, so busy with his own work that he has no time to be worrying about his rights. He dismisses the negro people of northern cities very easily & speaks for the 8,ooo,ooo—the great masses of the colored people of the South, who are slowly rising. Among these there is plenty of work & not much trouble about the ''problem.'' He even asked me: ''Have you ever seen a suffering negro?'' & commented on the fact that no negToes were to be found in the bread-lines, & that he had almost never seen a hungry negro. Someway they manage always to live. ''I sometimes ~ink,'' he said, ''though it would never do to say it publicly that a little real suffering would be good for the Negro. It would make him struggle harder.'' He Is one of He comparatively few men ~ have met who always impresses me as being great somehow possessing qualities beyond & above the ordinary. He Is very simple, very homely In his stories, with a sublime sort of common sense. It is a real inspiration to meet a man 237