The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.4, page xxii, in Introduction, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers where black and white, northerner and southerner, had harmonized in a fight for freedom. Washington warned that race hatred, unless cut out, would be a cancer in the heart of the South. A wave of southern criticism, however, forced Washington to explain away his speech and return to the Atlanta address formula. In these years Washington made new allies among the wealthy and powerful. William H. Baldwin, fir., became the head of the Tuskegee trustees in 1895 and Washin~ton's closest white adviser. Bald · . . c, . . . _ win began an aggressive campaign to secure contributions to Tuskegee from the multimillionaires. Among those who began or substantially increased their annual gifts to Tuskegee in these years were Andrew Carnegie, Henry H. Rogers, and John D. Rockefeller. This fresh flow of money and the growing fame of Washington and his educational philosophy brought about an enlargement of Tuskegee, including new buildings. a larder student body and a more snec~ialized faculty. A an, =~ ~~ --I r new addition to the faculty was George Washington Carver, who took charge of the federal agricultural experiment station on the Tuskegee campus and began his career in applied scientific agriculture. Emmett Jay Scott, a young Texas newspaper editor, marked an important step in Washington's developing role as a black leader when he came to Tuskegee in 1897 as Washington's private secretary. Scott worked day and night to make his chief the dominant figure in the national black community, managing a larger office force to handle Washington's growing correspondence, combing the black and white press for signs of matters needing attention, answering Washington's mail with the carefully learned nll~nce..s of Wn~hin~ton'.s thought and expression. ...... ~ ~ _ it, With Scott as his surrogate, Washington was able to leave Tuskegee for long intervals, secure in the knowledge that no important aerate would escape notice. In the black communities of the northern cities, Washington relied heavily on T. Thomas Fortune, the New York journalist, to inform and advise him. He began in these years, however, to seek other black allies in the North. As late as 1898, Washington still considered Tuskegee Institute his primary concern and principal base of operations. Opposition to him was silently developing among black intellectuals, but he was not openly challenged. He had for years shunned black conventions and race organizations, and it was not until Egg that he took part in the Afro-American Council, spoke out against lynching, albeit i ·e XX11