Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15 Vol.14: Index           All Writings Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15
Volume 1: Autobiographical Writings Volume 2: 1860-1889 Volume 3: 1889-1895 Volume 4: 1895-1898 Volume 5: 1899-1900 Volume 6: 1901-1902 Volume 7: 1903-1904 Volume 8: 1904-1906 Volume 9: 1906-8 Volume 10: 1909-11 Volume 11: 1911-12 Volume 12: 1912-14 Volume 13: 1914-15 Volume 14: Cumulative Index   BTWP Vol.4 Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-vi Contents, pp. vii-xx Introduction, pp. xxi-xxiv Errata, pp. xxv-xxvi Chronology, pp. xxvii-xxviii Symbols and Abbreviations, pp. xxix-xxx Documents, 1895-98, pp. 1-2 Sept. 1895, pp. 3-45 Oct. 1895, pp. 46-68 Nov. 1895, pp. 68-88 Dec. 1895, pp. 88-98 Jan. 1896, pp. 98-108 Feb. 1896, pp. 109-125 Mar. 1896, pp. 125-152 Apr. 1896, pp. 152-167 May 1896, pp. 168-175 June 1896, pp. 175-187 July 1896, pp. 187-204 Aug. 1896, pp. 204-208 Sept. 1896, pp. 208-223 Oct. 1896, pp. 223-230 Nov. 1896, pp. 230-240 Dec. 1896, pp. 241-252 Jan. 1897, pp. 252-259 Feb. 1897, pp. 259-262 Mar. 1897, pp. 262-269 Apr. 1897, pp. 269-276 May 1897, pp. 276-289 June 1897, pp. 290-307 July 1897, pp. 307-316 Aug. 1897, pp. 316-324 Sept. 1897, pp. 325-329 Oct. 1897, pp. 330-336 Nov. 1897, pp. 336-345 Dec. 1897, pp. 346-358 Jan. 1898, pp. 359-377 Feb. 1898, pp. 377-385 Mar. 1898, pp. 386-399 Apr. 1898, pp. 399-414 May 1898, pp. 414-425 June 1898, pp. 425-437 July 1898, pp. 437-453 Aug. 1898, pp. 454-459 Sept. 1898, pp. 460-478 Oct. 1898, pp. 478-500 Nov. 1898, pp. 500-524 Dec. 1898, pp. 524-554 Addendum, pp. 555-556 Bibliography, pp. 557-560 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.

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ want to see you and talk. Tale care of your health. Your friend ALS Con. ~39 BOW Papers DLC. T. Thomas Fortune ~ Fortune may have been referring to an item in the New York Evening Post, Nov. ~6, Age, I, announcing a mass meeting organized by Fortune at Cooper Union to protest the race riot in Wilmington, N.C. Fortune was reported to have said that he had invited many other blacks but not BTW: ''Mr. Fortune said that the subject was one which was altogether foreign to Prof. Washington's work, and he did not think he would be willing to deliver an address.'' He may have referred, however, to the New York Evening Post, Nov. ~~, 1898, 6, which reported that the mass meeting under Fortune's chairmanship called for a reduction of representation in Congress of southern states denying blacks the right to vote and urged a new amendment to the Constitution strengthening black rights. The Post editorially commented in a way that suggested an interview of BTW: ''Infinitely wiser advice to the race is that given by the ablest leader whom it has yet developed. Booker T. Washington not only fails to suggest any effort to secure new laws or constitutional amendments, but he frankly admits that the policy adopted to secure equal rights for the negro in this way thirty years ago -nas proved a failure. 'It must be apparent at this time,' he says, 'that the effort to put the rank and file of the colored people into a position to exercise the right of franchise has not been a success in those portions of our own country where the negro is found in large numbers.' He sees the reason for this, and thus states it: 'Either the negro was not prepared for any such wholesale exercise of the ballet as our recent amendments to the Constitution contemplated, or the American people were not prepared to assist and encourage him to use the ballot. In either case the result has been the same.' '' Washington's solution to the race problem, the Post; reported, was ''for the negro in every part of America to resolve that his pillar of fire by night and pillar of cloud by day shall be property, skill, economy, education, and Christian character.'' To Joseph Forney Johnston Tuskegee, Alabama [ca. Dec. I, 1898] Dear sir: I was very glad to hear through Senator Thompson that you would be here Dec ~6, the day that President McKinley visits this institution. I wish to consult you about the programme before it is finally arranged and will see you regarding the programme some time within the next few days. 524