The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 69, Nov. 1895, U. of Illinois Press

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N 0 v E M B E R I 8 9 5 peat the instances mentioned in one of the teachers meetings. The students in their composition work can go to the brick yard and write compositions about the manner of making brick or harnessing horses. Many of the examples in arithmetic can be gotten out of actual problems in the blacksmith shop, tin shop, or farm. The physics I think could be made to bear more on the industrial work. I wish as early as possible you would have a consultation with Mr. I. H. Washington on this subject and come to an understanding as far as possible as to the best methods of carrying out this plan. Booker T. Washington TLSr Copy Con. ~~ BOW Papers DLC. From Edward Elder Coopers Washington, D.C., Nov 2nd., 1895 Friend Washington: We wrote you recently asking for a copy of your lithograph but have not heard from you. Hope you will send one at your convenience. The small fry of the colored press, as well as a few of the so called ''big guns,'' are worrying a little about your speech.2 You have a champion in THE COLORED AMERICAN at all times. The more these fellows bray about your speech, the greater the speech appears. You are too philosophical we are sure, to lose any sleep over it. Let us hear from you. Yours very sincerely, E. E. Cooper TLS Con. :~ BTW Papers DLC. ~ Edward Elder Cooper was a leading black journalist and a devoted and uncritical follower of BTW. Born near Smyrna, Tenn., he attended an old barracks school for blacks in Nashville which was later the nucleus of Fisk University. Moving to Indianapolis, he attended high school there. From ~ 88a to ~ 886 he was employed in the postal service. In ~ 888 he founded the Indianapolis Freeman, which was, under his editorship and that of his successors, one of the leading black weeklies. In 1893 he founded the Washington Colored American, a consistently pro-BTW paper that received occasional financial assistance from the Tuskegean. 2 W. Calvin Chase in the Washington Bee on the same day said of the Atlanta speech and its reception: ''He said something that was death to the Afro-American and elevating to the white people. What fool wouldn't applaud the downfall of his aspiring competitor?'' (Washington Bee, Nov. c, ~ 895, quoted in Harlan, 69