The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 399, Jan. 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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JANUARY · 1900 clo the best work not the poorest and to help the institution. Every moment is spent in that effort. I am in hearty sympathy with all the work- the Industrial as well as the literary. These words are prompted out of a heart full of interest for our best good. When I have a moment I get hold of the teachers journals or go into the other classes to suggest and help the work. Under the present arrangement when am I to look over papers handed in by my pupils? Converse with my mathematical teachers? Visit the classes? How can I be held responsible for the class of work which is done in mathematics? Surely you will take up this matter and relieve me and others, if any, who are thus confronted or hampered.2 There are country schools which are run on the method of one teacher having 8, lo and ~~ classes a day the result of which we see in the utter ignorance and stupidity of many of our pupils here today- but no institution which stands for what Tuskegee does can afford to adopt this course of dwarfing teachers and half-teaching pupils. I am yours to serve in advancing Tuskegee, J. R. E. Lee ALS Core. ~ BTW Papers DLC. ~ John Robert E. Lee (~864-~944) was born and reared in Texas and was a graduate of Bishop College at Marshall, Tex. He taught mathematics at Tuskegee from 1899 to 1909 when he joined the staff of Benedict College at Columbia, S.C. From 1904 to Tog he also was president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools. In 1906 he returned to Tuskegee Institute as director of the academic department, a position he held until 19~5. During his tenure at Tuskegee, Lee was a promoter of the Alabama State Teachers' Association and the NNBL. Lee moved to Kansas City, Mo., and from 1 to 1 was principal of Lincoln High School. He was active in black social life in Kansas City as an organizer and promoter of clubs and charitable work. From 1 to 19~4 he was extension secretary for the National Urban League assigned the task of fund-raising among blacks. From 19~4 to 1944 he was president of Florida A & M College at Tallahassee, where he administered a reorganization of the school and brought in new funds from such agencies as the General Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Carnegie Foundation that resulted in an expansion of campus facilities. (See Neyland and Riley, History of Florida A ~ M University.) 2 Leonora Love Chapman Kenniebrew also complained to BTW about her work assignment. She wrote: ''May I presume to criticise the action of the Council in deciding that teachers must work all day and at night?'' She believed that many teachers would do inferior work in the classroom not because of a lack of ability but from overwork. (Jan. 8, Too, Con. ~77, BTW Papers, DLC.) 399