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.13 Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-vi Contents, pp. vii-xx Introduction, pp. xxi-xxvi Erratum, pp. xxvii-xxviii Symbols and Abbreviations, pp. xxix-xxx Documents, 1914-15, pp. 1-2 Apr. 1914, pp. 3-12 May 1914, pp. 12-39 June 1914, pp. 39-79 July 1914, pp. 79-105 Aug. 1914, pp. 105-124 Sept. 1914, pp. 125-137 Oct. 1914, pp. 137-158 Nov. 1914, pp. 159-191 Dec. 1914, pp. 191-208 Jan. 1915, pp. 209-235 Feb. 1915, pp. 236-247 Mar. 1915, pp. 247-258 Apr. 1915, pp. 259-284 May 1915, pp. 284-314 June 1915, pp. 314-335 July 1915, pp. 335-342 Aug. 1915, pp. 342-351 Sept. 1915, pp. 351-373 Oct. 1915, pp. 374-422 Nov. 1915, pp. 422-472 Dec. 1915, pp. 472-494 Addenda, pp. 495-495 Jan. 1899, pp. 496-498 9 Jan. 1901, pp. 499-499 2 Nov. 1901, pp. 500-504 20 May 1902, pp. 504-506 20 June 1903, pp. 507-508 26 Dec. 1903, pp. 508-508 9 June 1904, pp. 509-510 28 July 1904, pp. 510-510 1 Oct. 1904, pp. 511-511 31 Dec. 1904, pp. 511-512 7 Mar. 1906, pp. 512-514 4 Oct. 1906, pp. 514-515 19 Oct. 1906, pp. 515-515 7 Nov. 1906, pp. 516-516 12 Nov. 1906, pp. 516-517 17 Nov. 1906, pp. 517-518 11 Dec. 1906, pp. 519-519 30 Oct. 1907, pp. 519-520 16 Mar. 1908, pp. 520-520 30 Mar. 1908, pp. 521-521 2 Apr. 1908, pp. 521-522 27 June 1908, pp. 522-523 18 Jan. 1911, pp. 523-526 Bibliography, pp. 527-530 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 ~ hope, therefore, that you may see fit to do whatever may lie In your power to Induce the Board of Trustees to make this selection. Again apologizing for this intrusion upon your time, ~ remain, Very truly yours, A. C. Napier3 TL Copy Con. 534 BTW Papers DLC. An Editorial in Christian Endeavor World December 2, 19~5 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AN APPRECIATION BY A SOUTHERNER ''Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat wiD be empty.'' Officially there will be a successor; personally there can be none. Generous as is Providence in other beneficence, He gives sparingly of really great men. One or two for a single race, and the limit of His favor for a generation has been reached. Booker T. Washington was God's supreme gift to the negroes of this generation, and, on behalf of the negroes, to the world. Others as great, possibly even greater, may emerge; but he was the greatest that ever came, or that ever can come, ''up from slavery.'' Nor is there anything invidious in this. Opportunities, while they do not make men great, do disclose true greatness. Booker T. Washington had unexampled opportunities, and he made the most of them. His theory was an inspiration. Race-betterment as he conceived it lay not in the direction of a vain clamor for social recognition all men claim the right to choose their companions from the ranks of the consenting; it lay toward self-respect, self-support, and resulting racial pride. ''Own, order, elevate, and protect your own home,'' was the core of his creed, and for any race, that, in the spirit of Christ, is a saving faith, the plan of salvation. More than any other man, living or dead, he was responsible for the fact that thousands of negroes could sing, with the joy of proprietorship, the closing lines of Frank L. Stanton's inimitable poem, 472