The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.7, page 357, Dec. 1903, U. of Illinois Press

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DECEMBER 1 9o3 To William Henry Baldwin, Jr. ''Tuskegee, Ala.] December 3, 1903 Dear Mr. Baldwin: I write you regarding the sleeping car~business. I am very glad to have seen your last letter. I find it is quite necessary to go ahead in the matter and have Mr. Cravathi give us his opinion upon the subject. I have learned of three different cases lately where the Pullman car people have either refused or avoided selling sleeping car accommodations from Cincinnati to colored people. In one case a woman bought or attempted to buy, a sleeping car ticket in Cincinnati to some point in [Tennessee, and it seems that the agent didn't know she was colored until he had sold the ticket and he saw her talking with some colored people and therefore supposed she was colored; pretending that there was some mistake regarding the ticket, he secured it from her and returned the money. In another case a colored minister bought a ticket and got upon the car ant} the conductor tried to get him to go out, but knowing his rights he refused, and the result was that they let him ride from Cincinnati to AtIanta, Gal, in the drawing room at single berth rates. Dr. Mason, the Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society in Cincinnati, a very intelligent and level-headed colored man, says that one of the Pullman car ticket agents in Cincinnati has told him that he has received instructions not to sell tickets to colored people. Yours truly, [Booker T. Washington] TLc Con. 7 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Paul Drennan Cravath, born in Berlin Heights, Ohio, in 186~, was the son of Erastus Milo Cravath, president of Fisk University. A leading New York lawyer, Paul Cravath was a trustee of Fisk, and he and BTW later worked together closely in a fund-raising campaign for Fisk. In 1 he was involved in behind-the-scenes legal negotiations of the trial of Henry A. Ulrich for assaulting BTW in New York. 357