University of Illinois Press
 

    

 
Previous Section, Jan. 1898
Previous Section, Jan. 1898		   Next Chapter, Mar. 1898
Next Chapter, Mar. 1898
Go to Table of Contents
Go to Table of Contents    
Print a lo-res (300 dpi x 150 dpi) PDF image of this page
   

  

  
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.
[ Top of Page ] [ Home ] [ Contact Us ] [ Help ]
©2000 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
All rights reserved
OCRed data provided for searching only.
The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers A Constitutional Convention to place the suffrage upon an educational basis meets in this city Feb. 8. We intend to ask that Convention to provide for a normal school. We have taken our stand on this subject of education to fight the battle for the rights of our citizenship. A Memorial a copy of which is enclosed will be presented. Our plan is to have a popular meeting at the time the subject of education is taken up by the Convention, to endorse this Memonal, and we wish you to address this meeting, and, if possible, we will get you a chance to address the Convention. In this we have the cooperation of influential white gentlemen among them Senator D. M. Sholars~ whom you may remember. Our Memorial has already been endorsed in strong editorials by every influential paper in this city. The time cannot now be definitely stated, but we think the last part of Feb. or the first of March. A formal communication from our Secretary will be sent you. We assume your expenses, and you will be cordially entertained at Straight University. May I hope for an early and favorable reply? We shall need you whether we get a hearing before the convention or not. Our object is to create a strong public sentiment in the hope that if we fail before the Convention, we may succeed before the legislature later on. Trusting that you will have a successful Conference this year as usual, and assuring you of my presence in spirit if not in body I remain, Very Cordially YoursGeo. W. Henderson ALS Con. ~40 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Dennis M. Sholars (b. 1854) was a white attorney in New Orleans, in partnership with Charles A. Schreiber. To Edward H. Weston' ''Tuskegee, Ala.] Feb. 3, 1898 Mr. Weston: Considering the fact that you have been spoken to several times in regard to your relations with the girl students and the 378