The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 102, May 1899, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ~ Isaiah D. Barnett. 2 Charles Satchell Morris was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1865. After attending Howard University from 1886 to 1889 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1893, he studied at Newton Theological Institution from 1895 to 1898. Simultaneously he was pastor of the Myrtle Baptist Church ire West Newton, Mass., from the time of his ordination in 1896 until sometime in 1899. During 1 g-~goo he was a missionary in Liberia and South Africa. He was pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City from egos to 1908 and of the Bank Street Baptist Church in Norfolk from 1 to Age. In the twos he was president of the Boydton Academic and Bible Institute in Virginia. Like many other professional men of the period, Morris fluctuated between support of BTW and the more militant position of the Niagara Movement. At the Afro-American Council meeting in 1903, Morris said: ''Samson slew the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. The little crowd from Boston has the same weapon, but does not know how to use it.... The shallows may roar, but the great deeps of Negro manhood believe in Booker Washington and are proud to trust and follow him.'' (Extract from the Louisville Evening Post, July 3, 1903, quoted in Scott to BOW, July 7, 1906, Con. 327, BTW Papers, DLC.) In 19~6, on the other hand, he said in an address at Faneuil Hall in Boston: ''I believe Booker T. Washington's heart is right, but that in fawning, cringing and groveling before the white man he has cost his race their rights and that twenty years hence, as he looks back and sees the harm he has done his race, he will be brokenhearted over it.'' (Mathews, BTW, e8~-83.) Later that year, however, Morris reversed himself, saying: ''I have reached the point where T am through fighting black men. Hereafter I shall devote my energies and thought to the fighting of the enemies outside of the race.'' (''A Clarion Call from Dr. Charles S. Morris,'' news release, cat Oct. 1906, Con. 3~7, BTW Papers, DLC.) Morris wrote Washington that his change of heart was the result of Washingtor~'s courage and leadership at the Atlanta Riot ''in that supreme hour when leadership was imperative.'' (Morris to BTW, Nov. 7, 1906, Con. 3~7, BTW Papers, DLC.) From George Bruce Cortelyoui Executive Mansion Washington, D.C. May 6, 1899 My dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the ark instant in behalf of the appointment of Prof. Jesse Lawson as a member of the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition, and to say that by direction of the President it has been brought to the attention of the Secretary of State. Very truly yours, Geo. B. Cortelyou Assistant Secretary to the President. TLSr Con. ~ BTW Papers DLC. for