Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15 Vol.14: Index           All Writings Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15
Volume 1: Autobiographical Writings Volume 2: 1860-1889 Volume 3: 1889-1895 Volume 4: 1895-1898 Volume 5: 1899-1900 Volume 6: 1901-1902 Volume 7: 1903-1904 Volume 8: 1904-1906 Volume 9: 1906-8 Volume 10: 1909-11 Volume 11: 1911-12 Volume 12: 1912-14 Volume 13: 1914-15 Volume 14: Cumulative Index   BTWP Vol.4 Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-vi Contents, pp. vii-xx Introduction, pp. xxi-xxiv Errata, pp. xxv-xxvi Chronology, pp. xxvii-xxviii Symbols and Abbreviations, pp. xxix-xxx Documents, 1895-98, pp. 1-2 Sept. 1895, pp. 3-45 Oct. 1895, pp. 46-68 Nov. 1895, pp. 68-88 Dec. 1895, pp. 88-98 Jan. 1896, pp. 98-108 Feb. 1896, pp. 109-125 Mar. 1896, pp. 125-152 Apr. 1896, pp. 152-167 May 1896, pp. 168-175 June 1896, pp. 175-187 July 1896, pp. 187-204 Aug. 1896, pp. 204-208 Sept. 1896, pp. 208-223 Oct. 1896, pp. 223-230 Nov. 1896, pp. 230-240 Dec. 1896, pp. 241-252 Jan. 1897, pp. 252-259 Feb. 1897, pp. 259-262 Mar. 1897, pp. 262-269 Apr. 1897, pp. 269-276 May 1897, pp. 276-289 June 1897, pp. 290-307 July 1897, pp. 307-316 Aug. 1897, pp. 316-324 Sept. 1897, pp. 325-329 Oct. 1897, pp. 330-336 Nov. 1897, pp. 336-345 Dec. 1897, pp. 346-358 Jan. 1898, pp. 359-377 Feb. 1898, pp. 377-385 Mar. 1898, pp. 386-399 Apr. 1898, pp. 399-414 May 1898, pp. 414-425 June 1898, pp. 425-437 July 1898, pp. 437-453 Aug. 1898, pp. 454-459 Sept. 1898, pp. 460-478 Oct. 1898, pp. 478-500 Nov. 1898, pp. 500-524 Dec. 1898, pp. 524-554 Addendum, pp. 555-556 Bibliography, pp. 557-560 The page presentation framework of the Booker T. Washington papers is designed to provide researchers worldwide with searchable access to the thousands of pages comprising the fourteen volumes, most of which are out of print. Adapted from the National Academy Press's Open Book framework, this framework allows searching down to the page level, provides sorting of search results chronologically, enables easy navigation across multiple volumes, and allows page-by-page local printing (via PDF) of every page.

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers he took an active part in aiding blacks by establishing a school and also by preaching at black Baptist churches. Schaeffer supported the school out of his own pocket after the Freedmen's Bureau was dissolved. Gradually the administration of the school came under the control of the Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia, and Schaeffer withdrew from active participation in its affairs in order to concentrate on his role as minister. From Timothy Thomas Fortune Atlanta, Gal, March 3I, 1896 Dear Mr. Washington: Our friends in the north want me to establish a newspaper here which shall cover the whole South and which they will back until I can get it on a paying basis. You know my opinion of longer residing in the north. I write now because you are my good friend and ~ want your candid opinion of the undertaking. We shall not abandon The Age. It will do in the north what we do in the South with the Southern Age. If I go into the undertaking I shall want your active support in all directions, and if you approve of it I wish you to dictate at once a letter to the paper expressing your approval of the movement and stating in your way the work it can do for the good of the race. ~ wired Mrs. Matthews yesterday to come here because I need her help in the project. With kind regards for you and Mrs. Washington, Your friend T. Thomas Fortune ALS Con. 19 BTW Papers DLC. From William EdwarcI BurgharcIt Du Bois Wilberforce, O. Wednesclay, ~ April 96 Dear Mr Washington: I have been for some time seeking a leisure hour in which to answer you~r] kind letter of the ~ Seth January but leisure hours are scarce here. I feel that I should like the work at Tuskeegee if I could be of service to you. My idea has been that there might gradually be developed there a school of Negro History and I52