The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 227, Oct. 1899, U. of Illinois Press

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O C TO B ER 1 8 99 attract attention as clicI the exhibits at Atlanta and Nashville Expositions, and do a great and lasting good in convincing thinking people of the possibilities of the Negro. Not only will foreigners be impressed, but hundreds of white Americans will be far more convinced by what they see there than what they see, or can see, every day in this country, but fail to give us credit for. Hundreds of Southern white people were amazed at the evidences of culture and progress they saw in the Negro Exhibits in Nashville and Atlanta, and yet you know that if they would only visit the churches and the homes of our best families in those cities alone they would see an exhibit, far more pronounced, of the culture of the race. But this they will not do and we must prove our cause in other ways. Please write me your views (on your official letter-head) and I trust you can do so immediately, as the earlier the plan is laid before our Commission the better. Very truly yours, Thos. J. Calloway TLS Con. ~60 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Calloway was successful in lobbying for the Negro exhibit. He wrote BTW on Jan. ~5, Moo, ''Our bill for $~5000.00 has now passed both houses of Congress and I suppose will be signed by the President within z4 hours. Public sentiment was so unanimous in its favor that the only questions asked me have been 'Is it enough?''' (Con. ~68, BTW Papers, DLC.) From George Leonard Chaney Leominster, Mass. Oct. 9, 1899 Dear Washington. I am very sorry that I cannot attend the special meeting of the Tuskegee Trustees next week. I could not possibly be away from home at that time. If possible, I shall try to visit Tuskegee sometime this winter and will do anything I can to counsel or assist you then. Let me hear the meat of the meeting, if you can, without too much trouble. I more than ever believe in your way of solving the political problem, by flanking prejudice with intelligence, character and wealth. I remember discussing the question with Grady, when he 227