The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page 99, Jan. 1896, U. of Illinois Press

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JA N UARY · I 8 9 6 here is a good one, yet I am not wholly satisfied and am continually on the lookout for another position. There is a little too much church politics in the management and too little real interest and devotion to the work of real education. Then again ~ have no chance to teach my specialty of History and Sociology at all. ~ have had the good fortune to have a monograph of mine accepted at Harvard and it will be published in the spring as the first of a series of historical studies. It is on the suppression of the slave trade. I am thinking somewhat of trying to organize a summer School of Sociology here next summer—it Is a delightful and cheap place to spend the summer and ~ might be able to do some good. If you hear of any opening which you think I am fitted to fill, kindly let me know. ~ trust you~r] work is prospering as it deserves to. My best regards to yourself and Mrs. Washington. Sincerely Yours, W. E. B Du Bois ALS Con. ~6 BTW Papers DLC. tAIbert Bushnell Hart (~854-~943), a well-known American historian, was a member of the Harvard faculty from 1883 to 19~6. He directed Du Bois's doctoral dissertation. Hart maintained a friendship with both BTW and Du Bois, and later, when Du Bois became one of BTW's outspoken critics, Hart failed to comprehend their differences and believed that both men were really working for the same goals. Hart included excerpts from BTW's essay on ''The Future of the American Negro'' (~899) in Vol. IV of his American History Told by Contemporaries (bigot ). In the introduction to that essay Hart wrote that because of BTW's grasp of the race problem he was ''a valuable factor in the future of American progress.'' From Hugh Shepard Darby Mallory Selma, Ala., Jany ~3 1896 Dear Sir: You are interested in the welfare of your race and have, to a large extent, the confidence of the white people of the country, North and South. I have for some time been impressed with the belief that much good might be accomplished in the advancement of the colored race and to society generally by the employment of colored labor in our cotton mills in the south. You are aware that there is great activity in the 99