The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 545, Apr. 1895, U. of Illinois Press

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APRIL · I 895 you Said you Would come over hear I Wid be Sure to look for you and as marry others Wants to come Please let me know about What time you can come yours truly J. J. Benson ALS Con. 9 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. Probably John Benson, listed in the 1880 census as a thirty-year-old literate black farmer living in Elmore County near Tallassee. 2 Whitecaps were a sort of informal Ku Klux Klan. Bands of masked, armed white men in the rural South in the Lagos and later used violence and threats to drive blacks from economic competition or the polls. Whitecaps were particularly prevalent in Mississippi but also appeared in surrounding states. (See Holmes, ''Whitecapping: Agrarian Violence in Mississippi, 1902-~906.'') 3 Grant gurney, an employee of the Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Company, reported to a Mr. Hutchinson that James Lee, a delivery man, had eaten oysters from a package he was carrying to Hutchinson. Lee went to gurney's house and demanded that he retract the statement. When Burney refused, Lee shot and killed him and then fled. Though citizens of the town offered a $ ~ oo reward, which the governor matched, apparently Lee was never apprehended. (Montgomery A d vertiser, Mar. 2 7, ~ 895, 3. ~ From A. M. De Vaughn Pensacola, Fla. Apr. 6, 1895 Dear Sir: I've been frequently asked whether the negroes should attend the Atlanta Exposition, and ride in Second class cars, and there wiD be a meeting to discuss the matter as to whether they should or not, at which place and time I am to show why they should. There are some strong reasons shown why they should not, and for this and other reasons ~ should like to have your strongest private views in the case. Inclosed find stamp for an immediate reply to Yours Obt'ly A. M. DeVaughn ALS Con. 9 BTW Papers ATT. Original destroyed. Fla. A. M. De Vaughn, born about 1849, was a black schoolteacher in Pensacola 545