The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 459, Aug. 1898, U. of Illinois Press

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AUGUST · ~ 898 From Frank E. Saffold Wilmington, N.C., 8-30th, 1898 Dear Mr. Washington- This is the programme for Wilmington. You leave Greensboro Monday at ~ c: ~5 reach Wilmington I: lo that night; drive direct to the home of a Mr Rivers (with whom you and Mrs. W will stop) and step across the street to the St Stephen's A.M.E. Church of which Dr I. S. Lee, an ardent admirer of yours is pastor. You speak at 8: 30 ''colored folk's time.'' Next morning at St Luke's (M. EZ.) lo a.m. Mrs. Washington to the colored women only, at ~ ~ you speak same place to ministers and teachers. Right here —if your audience be strictly teachers and preachers, I fear you will speak to only a very few, so I have taken the liberty of saying, privately to a number of professional men, Doctors &c. &c. that at this meeting they will be welcomed. Most of the city school teachers are away just now. St Stephen's where your mass meeting will be is the largest place in town—wont cost you a cent and I think you will have a good crowd. Just now Wilmington (that is the colored & white people) is 1909 and excited because of the statement made by a negro editor here regarding white women2 exactly like the Jesse Duke's affair,3 and how this is going to effect your reception on the parts of the whites I dont know. A lynching, they tell me, is an impossibility at this seaport the whites therefore are making much political capital out of it and the Wilmington Messenger is exceedingly bitter. Here to my mind is an opportunity for you to if you care to, bring about a fine feeling between the races. Many have referred to your Atlanta speech as being just the thing to help defeat the force of these Democratic denunciations of the whole race. I leave tonight for Columbia. More anon. Saffold Mr. Taylor will meet you at the depot. My address Charleston is c/o Dr Crum Columbia c/o J. E. Wallace. I go from here to Charleston that is more direct and I can easily avoid a conflict of dates. ALS Con. ~46 BTW Papers DLC. 459