The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 337, Nov. 1897, U. of Illinois Press

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N 0 v E M B E R · I 8 9 7 any kind can be made to go in helping students to secure an education and at the same time not cultivate a dependent spirit in the students. Shoes, even if very much worn are very helpful as they can be repaired in our shoe shop. If your church Sunday school any society or individual can help us along this line we shall be most grateful. Of course our greatest need is the $50 with which to pay the tuition of each student, but clothing will greatly help. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Courtesy of Helen Carr, Annisquam, Mass. ~ Herbert Wnghtington Carr (~867-~9~5) was a Universalist minister who served parishes at Fort Plain, N.Y., Stamford, Conn., Framingham, Mass., and Manchester, N.H. He had a lifelong interest in the cause of black advancement in America. To Edwarc! Atkinson Tuskegee, Ala. Nov. 7th, ~ 897 My dear sir: I hope you will pardon the delay in answering your letter of recent date. I could not put my hands on the information for which you wrote before today. By this mail I send you a book called ''School History of the Negro Race''2 which contains some facts bearing upon the Negro's progress. I have turned down the pages where this information can be found. I do not know how accurate these figures or statements are. In some cases I fee] that they are exaggerated; for example, I know we often see in print figures purporting to represent the Negro's wealth, but ~ cannot understand how these figures can be accurate. There are only two states so far as I know that keep the Negro's and white people's property separate on the tax books, these states are Georgia and Virginia and Virginia ~ think only recently begun to do this, hence I do not see how except in these two states we can judge accurately as to the Negro's taxable property. In some inexplainable way, before I got through reading it, the clipping which you sent me containing the Mississippi gentleman's statement was mislaid, and I should be very grateful if you will send 337