The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 455, July 1894, U. of Illinois Press

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JULY . I 894 justly with it. Mr Penny said many thing which we can prove are not true concerning the water the fact is that justic has not been given. I've been to every teacher on the faculty and they say that they have not power to do any thing. You see you are away and there is realy no head to any thing at alp. Hopeing to hear from you at an early date. I am as ever Yours truly ALS Con. 7 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. McCants Stewart ~ Thomas McCants Stewart, Jr., son of the famous black lawyer and minister, entered the Tuskegee B middle class in 189~. His father sent him to Tuskegee with full knowledge of his son's unruly and intractable nature: ''He has always given trouble.... Mac is dominated by the Harris blood and influence, I am sure that what you say of the grandmother is true. Mac has never learned to obey even me.'' (Stewart to BTW, July ~6' 1894, Con. 7, BTW Papers, ATT. Original destroyed.) Stewart Sr. urged BTW to handle Mac firmly: ''I feel sure that you would deal with Mac as with your own son. Just be sure that his body keeps warm, and feet dry; and the coarser the clothing the better in the end for him, I think. He would like nothing better than to pose as 'the dude' of his neighborhood.'' (Stewart to BTW, Sept. 27, :894, Con. foe, BTW Papers, DLC.) After graduating from Tuskegee in ~ 896, Stewart attended law school at the University of Minnesota, where he was business manager of the Twin City American. He graduated in egos and moved to Oregon. 2 Charles Pullin of Atlanta was in the junior class in 1893-94. He did not graduate. i] 3 Henry Edwin Johnson of Brunswick, Gal, was a junior in 1893-94. He was in the A middle class in 1897-98 and apparently did not graduate. 4 Probably Charles Lives Marshall of Henderson, Ky., in the A middle class in 1893-94. He graduated in 1895. He taught shoemaking at Wiley University for a year, and became principal and instructor of shoemaking at Christiansburg Industrial Institute. 5 King David Williams of Rome, Gal, was in the D class of the night school n 1893-94. He did not graduate. 6 Gilchrist Stewart (Chris), son of Thomas McCants Stewart, entered Tuskegee Institute in the B middle class in :89~? and graduated in dairying in 1895. He studied dairy science at the University of Wisconsin and taught at South Dakota Agricultural College and at Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ont. Later he moved to New York City, where he became a lawyer and took an active part in race affairs. John E. Milholland, president of the Constitutional League, employed Stewart as an organizer and attorney. In 1906 Joseph B. lToraker employed him to investigate the Brownsville affray, and Stewart was one of the earliest persons to reach what is now the generally accepted conclusion, that the two black regiments dismissed from the Army for alleged rioting were innocent. Stewart occasionally relayed information regarding race matters in New York to BTW and his chief New York contact, Charles W. Anderson. His affiliations and ideas were more militant than those of Washington's lieutenants, however, and 455