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MAY 1 go3 its votes, any attention from Congress, I confidently expect to see still further assaults upon the liberties of colored people. A people without representation are a people without liberty, as I think so able a man as you must admit. With kind regards to Mrs. Washington, believe me, Sincerely yours, TLS BTW Papers ATT. Giles v. Harris, 189 U.S. 475 Agog. Emmett Jay Scott to E. Donaldson Chas. W. Chesnutt Tuskegee, Ala.] May 4, ~ go3 Dear Sir: I boarded the sleeping car Boscebal at ~ a: So o'clock Saturday, May ad at Richmond, Va., and attempted to secure a berth on that car from Richmond to Atlanta, Ga. The conductor, I. W. Wood, peremptorily refused me accommodation with the statement that everything had been sold. This statement was absolutely untrue as you can verify, I am sure, by reference to his record, etc. It would have required forty-eight persons to have filled every seat, as you readily understand, and there were only twenty persons, who as a matter of fact, had seats even from Richmond to Danville. With the cowardly spirit of his cowardly kind, he attempted to intimidate the porter who contradicted his statement in my presence that all seats were sold. I was an interstate passenger and this man had no right to refuse me service; and then, too, in the State of Virginia, there is no law operating against the selling of sleeping car berths to persons of color. The Pullman Company is in business for the sake of business, and this man, serving his own prejudices, deprived the Company of the sale of a berth from Richmond to Atlanta. I am not sure that you are the proper person with whom to enter complaint in this matter, and so I am sending a copy of this letter ~37