The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 513, 7 Mar. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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ADDE N DA are not permitted to enter the depot by the same door, if a colored man attempts to enter the same door through which the white people enter, it is considered that he is trying to practice social equality. It is almost the universal custom in the South for colored and white people to shave in different barber shops; on the other hand, one will find right in the same block where the people are separated in the barber shops a dentist who puts the same tools into the mouths of his colored patients that he uses for his white patients and nothing is thought of it. In Nashville, Tenn., there is a colored dentist, seventy per cent of whose patients are among the best white people in that city. There are a number of depots in the South where colored people can stand up right by the side of white people and eat their dinner, but if they were to go two yards away and sit down at the table together there would be trouble. These are but a few of the instances. In Montgomery, Ala., nine-tenths of the mail carriers are colored, and ~ think I run no risk in saying that if any one were to substitute white mail carriers in their places that the white people along their routes, especially the women, would make a loud protest, but in many parts of the South the white people would object seriously to colored people handing them a letter through the post office window, but would make no objection to a colored mail carrier handing them a letter at their door. There is a class of white people in the South and in the North who are always ready to insist on unreasonable and unjust separations to the extent that ~ very much fear that anything that you might say in this direction would be twisted into an endorsement of unjust and unreasonable separation. Another element that enters into the consideration of the subject Is the fact that wherever separation is insisted upon in the case of public carriers especially, the colored people, with few exceptions, receive inferior accommodations for the same pay. There is almost no railroad in the South that furnishes first class accommodations for colored people, but they are made to pay first class fare. Where they are separated in restaurants and in waiting rooms the-same difference in accommodations Is apparent. In certain directions where the reasons for separation are well defined and acquiesced in by the members of both races, such as in the education of the colored people in the South, ~ believe that it is proper and wise to insist upon taking hold of the system and making it stand 5~3