The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 289, May 1897, U. of Illinois Press

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MAY · I 897 ~ For BTW's account of the ceremonies, see above, ~ :~o6-~, 347-49. 2 John Albion Andrew ~ ~ 8 ~ 8-67), Civil War governor of Massachusetts. From Albert Bushnell Hart Cambridge, Mass. May 1897 Dear Mr Washington: Can you join a small company of gentlemen to meet Professor Woodrow Wilson at dinner at the Colonial Club, Cambridge, at half past six or1 Wednesday, June second? Sincerely yours, ALS Con. :~?9 BTW Papers DLC. Albert Bushnell Hart A Message to the People of the Worthy Tuskegee, Alabama [May ~ 897] ~ wish to ask each person in the North who reads these lines to put himself in the place if he can of the Negro and the Southern white man as often as possible. After he has done this let him ask God to help him do the thing that will result in Removing all bitterness of heart and that wiD help lift the load of ignorance that now weighs down most parts of the South. Yours Sincerely Booker T. Washington ALS Con. 977 BTW Papers DLC. At the top of the sheet in BTW's hand were the words ''Our day May, 1897.'' The message appeared as a facsimile of BTW's autograph in Our Day, :7 (May 1897), 2~4. It preceded an seepage biographical sketch of BTW by George T. B. Davis and a e-page account of the Tuskegee Negro Conferences by R. C. Bedford. 289