The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 251, Oct. 1901, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · 1901 and was educated at Avery Institute. He entered the University of South Carolina in 1874 and remained there for three years, until the school closed its doors to blacks. He taught school for a time in South Carolina before entering Iowa College at Grinnell, where he remained until 188~. He moved to the Distriet of Columbia in the mid-~880s and worked in the Government Printing Office. In 1887 he entered the real estate and loan business in Washington and became a successful businessman who had both black and white clients. He was a director of the black Capital Savings Bank. MeKinlay was active in black affairs in the Distriet of Columbia and was a Republican stalwart. BOW often stayed at MeKinlay's home when he was in Washington and MeKinlay functioned as BTW's adviser on national political affairs and on black activities in the nation's capital. He frequently went to the White House on BTW's errands. MeKinlay held two appointive offices. In 1907 President Roosevelt appointed him to a commission on housing for the poor in the Distriet of Columbia, and in Ho President Taft appointed him collector of the port of Georgetown, D.C. In early 19~e MeKinlay was among the first to protest the segregation of federal employees, a trend that reached its fullest impact after Woodrow Wilson took office. From Lawrence Fraser Abbott New York October 18, egos My dear Mr. Washington: Some time ago you wrote me saying that you had forwarded my copy of Prince Kropotkin'st ''Fields, Factories and Workshops.'' Will you kindly let me know how you sent it, and to what address. It has not yet reached me. Mr. Townsend, I believe, has already written you that we shall most willingly add the paragraph to Mr. Thrasher's article which touches upon your attitude toward political appointments in the South. lust when one is beginning to be encouraged about the race question in the South, isn't it a pity that the whole thing flares up again in a disagreeable and very obnoxious way. I refer to the dispatch from Washington in this morning's ''Herald,'' which quotes from one or two Southern editorials, bitterly criticising Mr. Roosevelt because you were a West at his table. I hope that such bigotry is only to be found in spots, so to speak. When you come on to New York again, I wish you would give me the pleasure of coming in to take luncheon with me. Yours sincerely, Lawrence F. Abbott TLS Con. cob BOW Papers DLC. ~ Petr Alekseevich Kropolkin (~84~-~9~), the Russian anarchist. 251