The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 46, Apr. 1890, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers in Sept 'go and you will be informed later of the exact amount of the increase. B. T. Washington ALpS Con. ~o6 BTW Papers DLC. ~ BTW wrote to Rosa Mason on the same date, accepting her resignation as Lady Principal and praising her work. (BTW to Mason, Apr. 7, 1890, Con. foe, BTW Papers, DLC.) From William S. Scarborough Wilberforee Univ. Wilberforce 0. April ~ 7 :890 My dear Sir: Yours is at hand. In reply ~ have to say that I have not received, as yet, an invitation to attend the ''Mohonk Negro Conference.'' So far as I am aware no Negro has, up' to date, been invited to be present. A card, just received from Mr. Cable leads me to infer that an invitation will be sent to some one or two of us and perhaps more to whom ~ know not. With best wishes I am, Yours very truly W. S. Scarborough ALS Con. 97 BTW Papers DLC. ~ William S. Searborough was born a slave in Macon, Gal, in 185~. His father, securing his freedom, encouraged his son to attend school. Scarborough graduated from Oberlin College in 1875. He became a noted linguist and a teacher at Wilberforee University. His textbook, First Lessons in Greek, was published in 188~. In 1883 he married Sarah C. Bieree, a writer and normal-school principal at Wilberforee. He was president of Wilberforee from 1908 to Ago. Searborough was occasionally more outspoken than BTW on racial matters in the 1880s and Lagos, but he moved to a more conservative position. By Moo he was endorsing the Hampton-Tuskegee goals of industrial education and aecommodation to southern white demands. By Hog he had moved toward a position more critical of Washington, becoming a member of the Committee of Forty set up by the National Negro Conference. In Arena magazine in 1890 Searborough stated publicly and more forcefully what BTW had said privately to George Washington Cable (see BTW to Cable, Apr. 7, 1890, above): ''. . . the recent Mohonk Conference called to consider the moral, intellectual and social condition of the negro, with the negro In persona left out, convinces me that there is a great deal of insincerity on the part of many so-called advocates of the race....'' Searborough thought it was absurd that the black man's view of the race question was presented by a white man. ''Why not 46