The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page xxiv, in Introduction, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers selective edition. This volume, for example, contains less about the development of Tuskegee Institute than earlier volumes of the series. This important aspect of Washington's life has not been neglected, but it must take second place to other emerging themes, such as Washington's growing role as a national political figure. Tuskegee Institute, however, remains central to an understanding of Washington, and the story of the school and its people is among the richest legacies of the Washington Papers. By Egg, however, the main process of institution-buiTding was over. Less space, therefore, will be devoted to matters at the school except those that are especially revealing of social and educational history. This volume also contains the full text of Washington's first book, The Future of the American Negro, published in December 1899. His first autobiography, The Story of My Life and Work, which also appeared during the period covered in this volume, can be found in its entirety in Volume ~ of The Booker T. Washington Papers. In this and subsequent volumes, letters from W. E. B. Du Bois are published with the permission of Mrs. Shirley Graham Du Bois and the University of Massachusetts Press, publishers of The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois, Vol. I (egg,). No further publication of these letters is authorized without their consent. In addition to persons whose help was acknowledged in earlier volumes, the editors would like to express their appreciation to the following: Thomas C. Barringer, Dennis A. Burton, Pete Daniel, John Duffy, Lawrence Foust, Patricia Carter Ives, Sara D. Jackson, Stuart Kaufman, Charles McLaughlin, Sylvia L. Render, Chalmers M. Roberts, Walter Rundell, fir., and ferry Thornbery. The editors could not do their work without the contribution of the staff of the Booker T. Washington Papers project: Janet P. Benham, Patricia A. Cooper, Sadie M. Harlan, Sharyn Mitchell, Denise P. Moore, and Judy A. Reardon. Pete Daniel, a former assistant editor of the project, who has continued to be of valuable assistance to the editors, has been named to the board of editorial ~ . advisors. We are grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. and the University of Maryland for their continued support of this project. xxv