The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 451, July 1894, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY · I 894 Negroes.'' This was certainly a pleasant surprise to many colored preachers, lawyers, physicians and other brain workers throughout the South, who had long looked for just such an opportunity- an opportunity to carry their wives and children to some respectable place where both pleasure and instruction could be secured. Beginning August ~ ~ and continuing till August ~~ there will be another ''Chautauqua for Negroes,'' and it is to be hoped that every colored marl who can possibly do so will take advantage of this rare opportunity and bring his family and friends to what is known as the Tuskegee Summer Assembly. The program is replete with lectures by persons, men and women, of known and singular ability. The preacher who comes will have an opportunity to add to his stock of theological information facts of the highest order; the school teacher cannot go away without having been benefitted by the many presentations of the best and latest methods of school governments, including all branches of pedagogy; the housewife, the loving mother, will learn many new things which she never knew could be put into practice in that most sacred place on earth, the home. In addition to these many pleasures and opportunities, there will be an abundance of opportuntiies for amusement, research and study. For particulars regarding rates, etc., address, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Indianapolis Freeman, July 7, 1894, 3. From George Washington Murray Washington D.C. July 7, 1894 Dear Friend: I have been intending, or planning to write you since my return from your magnificent institution, in whose praise ~ am , , _ , _ ~O ~ , very loud at all times and in all places. ~ am now preparing a bill appropriating all the money belonging to the estates of deceased colored soldiers- amounting to about four hundred thousand dollars to establish and maintain in different sections of our country three or four institutions model~ed] upon the plan of yours for the literary and industrial training of colored youths. I intend making yours one of them. 4