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DECEMBER 1 903 To Theodore Roosevelt [Tuskegee, Ala.] December 28, 1903 My dear Mr. President: On the 6th, Seth and Sth of January, we are to have a private conference in New York City, composed of twentyfive leading colored men gathered from all sections of the country. They will represent the educational, political, moral and sociological forces at work for the elevation of the race, and the conference will be composed of those who agree as well as those who disagree on important matters and we are hoping to make it a means of accomplishing a great deal of good for the race. I shall call to see you on the afternoon of January pith with the hope that you may have some suggestion to put before the conference. Yours very truly 7' Talc BTW Papers ATT. tBooker T. Washington] To Car! Schurz [Tuskegee, Ala.] December 28, 1909 My dear Mr. Schurz: I spent a portion of Christmas Day in reading your article in McClure's Magazine, and must say to you what I have just said to Mr. Baldwin in a letter, that it is the strongest and most statesmanlike word that has been said or the subject of the South and the Negro for a long number of years, and I want to thank you most earnestly for the article. I earnestly hope that it will have a large circulation in the South. McClure's Magazine is read a good deal by Southern white people, and I hope the results will be very far-reaching. Yours very truly, TLc Con. :74 BTW Papers DLC. [Booker T. Washington] ~ Carl Schurz, ''Can the South Solve the Negro Problem?'' McClure's Magazine, ee Jan. 1909), ~58 75. Schurz reviewed southern attitudes toward blacks since Reconstruction and concluded that the disfranchisement movement was an unconstitutional attempt to thwart racial progress. He termed certain southerners as 381