The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 243, July 1892, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY · I 892 weight of your judgment, your influence, your position against me In this matter. Please reply as early as convenient. Very respectfully J D Bibb ALS Con. 99 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Joseph D. Bibb was born in Montgomery, Ala., and attended the Swayne Public School there. He enrolled at Fisk University, but decided that he could learn best from black instructors and moved to Livingstone College, an A.M.E. sehoc>1 with an all-black faculty, of which I. C. Price was founder and president. He received an A.B. degree there in 1886. Bibb taught for one year at W. B. Paterson's state normal school in Montgomery, spent ten years as principal of Swayne School, and served for two years as professor of Hebrew and Bible history at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. He then became an A.M.E. minister in Montgomery. 2 At the meeting of the Alabama State Teachers' Association in Birmingham, on June 9, 1892, Bibb read a paper on ''The Negro Teacher in His Relation to the Negroes' Future.'' He advocated the employment of black teachers whenever possible. W. B. Paterson lead the discussion. ''He said that he felt the paper was a personal attack and asked that he might speak in behalf of himself.'' Others also spoke, and interest being high and the hour late, BTW as president postponed further discussion until the next morning. After speeches on both sides of the question, Bibb concluded with ''very animated'' remarks. He said: ''I have been accused of being ungrateful, I am accused of ingratitude, because I am fighting for that which makes this audience beautiful. I came not here to fight man, but to fight for principles. If I have erred, it is not of the heart, but of the head and the error, if any, has been so because of my devotion to my people. If in my death, my people would be elevated, let me die.'' Resolutions relative to Bibb's paper were offered by several persons, and two of them were adopted. The first was: ''Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association, that when it is the law of the State, for the races to be separated in schools supported by the State, that where colored teachers, equally competent with whites can be found, the colored teachers should be put in control of the colored school.'' The second was: ''Resolved: That the statement as published in the Birmingham Age-Herald, that 'The paper read by Prof. J. D. Bibb was a direct blow at the State Normal School of Montgomery,' is a mistake, and that we request the reporter to have this statement corrected.'' (Alabama State Teachers' Association, Minutes of the Eleventh Annual Session, `89~.) From Margaret James Murray Tuskegee, Ala., July Both 1892 My Dearest Booker, It is Sunday again and almost the same time that I talked with you last. ~ got the telegram and you can not think how glad I was to get it for it seems that you have been gone so long and 243