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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers From Eliza Davidson Columbus Ohio Jan ~ 6th ~ 890 Dear Son I Recived you Chrismas Flower and was glad to know that they came form you and oblige I was in hopes you had sent Me the Childrens pi.chturs But I was decived I wont you to sened them to Me some time so I can see them you can have them taken some time and sened them By Mail to Me I am in hopes that you and the childrn is will and doing well and have in Toyed your selves this new year I dont know as I will ever B able to come. to see you all But I live in hopes of seeing them in this world I have Bine Reciveing the Tuskegee Student and I see Olivies. Name in it and it gives Me a gate deal of plesurer to know that she was not forgoten now May God Bless you and your little flamly you must soon Yours truly Elize Davidson when I Recived your letter it was not sealed and it only had the Christmas Card and flower ALS Con. 8 BTW Papers DLC. ~ See above, c:3~4. She died in 1907. (BTW to Mary A. Elliott, Feb. as, 1907, Con. 348, BTW Papers, DLC.) An Excerpt from a Speech in Montgomery ''Montgomery, Ala., Jan. ~7, 1890] You may talk of our disadvantages because of our color, because of race prejudice, because of friction in enjoying civil and polit.ca] rights, may advise emigration to the West or the Congo, but I am free to say to you as young people preparing for life, that I had rather take my chances for an opportunity to lead a positive, helpful and independent life, right here in Alabama as a black man- and I would not change my color if I could- than in any other section of the Union or anywhere in the world. Montgomery Advertiser, Jan. 18, 1890, 2. This is all of the speech that is known to be extant. The Advertiser reported that BTW spoke before ''a large audience ~4