The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 201, July 1896, U. of Illinois Press

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J U L Y · I 8 9 6 because we have little time now to get it to press properly. I wish to give it a place of distinction in the number we are making up. Come in to see me at ally time, and believe me, Very heartily yours, Walter H. Page TLSr Copy W. H. Page Papers MH. Walter Hines Page (~855-~9~8) was a distinguished editor, publisher, and diplomat. Though a northern resident during most of his career, he maintained a lively involvement in southern affairs. Born in Cary, N.C., he was the son of a farmer who owned a few slaves but was a Unionist and thus gave his son a maverick heritage. Page studied at gingham Academy, Trinity College, Randolph-Macon College, and Johns Hopkins, where he was a graduate student in Greek for two years. After experience as a reporter for several years, Page returned to his home state, acquired control of the Raleigh State Chronicle, and launched an iconoclastic campaign against the shibboleths of the Old South and in favor of racial justice, business hustle, and the New South. After two years of trouble he gave up his paper and moved to New York. After considerable success as editor of Forum and the Atlantic Monthly, in 1899 Page became a partner in the newly formed Doubleday, Page and Company. The following year he founded The World's Work, a news monthly, of which he was editor until ~ 9 ~ 3. An early supporter of Hampton Institute, Page was one of the founders of the Conference for Education in the South and was an active member of the Southern Education Board, using these agencies for a renewal of his effort to reform the recalcitrant South. Page believed that the northern millionaire philanthropists and their allies among southern educators and progressives might reconstruct the South where armies and politicians had failed. Page was one of the organizers of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, founded in ~ gag to eradicate hookwo1 Act, the ''germ of laziness,'' in the South. His publication of Up from Slavery and several other of BTW's books reflected a commitment to BTW's methods of dealing with race problems. A longtime friend and ardent supporter of Woodrow Wilson, Page became in 19~3 the ambassador to Great Britain. An intense Anglophile, Page worked after the outbreak of World War I to eliminate causes of An;,lo-American friction. His advice to the President was uniformly pro-British, and he was frequently exasperated during the neutrality period at what he viewed as vacillation on Wilson's part. After the United States entered the war, Page undermined his health through overwork and died. 2 BTW's article, ''The Awakening of the Negro,'' appeared in Atlantic Monthly, 78 (Sept. 1896), 3~-~8. Much of the article was included in chap. 6 of BTW, The Future of the American Negro (Boston, 1899). See below, vol. 5. 20I