The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 388, Oct. 1905, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers against senseless attacks of a man like Dixon. The work here has stood for twenty-five years and is its own defense. What you say about Du Bois offering to reply to the article is very interesting and amusing. I cannot conceive in my own mind what kind of reply Du Bois could make. Certainly Dixon or no other white man has ever attempted to damage and discredit the work of this institution and my own efforts more than Du Bois has done, and you will note that during the past summer that Du Bois and Trotter have been in Boston editing the Guardian, and they have outdone even the South in their attempts to villify me for exercising my rights in dining with Mr. Wanamaker. They have joined hands with the vilest element of the South and have scattered more broadcast than any Southern paper has done the vilest language used about me. Under the circumstances, I repeat, it would be interesting to note what kind of reply Du Bois could make. These men seem to forget that Dixon and the lower element of the Southern press are not aiming at me as an individual but at the race, and that when these men join Dixon and Tillman and Tom Watson in condemning me, they are condemning at the same time the race to which they belong. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. 5 BTW Papers DLC. To Francis Jackson Garrison Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. October I, egos My dear Mr. Garrison: I note that December Both will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of your father, and I am very anxious that the members of our race see that the event be marked by some fitting celebration, something that shall be simple, helpful and uniform as far as possible throughout the country. I am writing especially to know if you have any special suggestion that you would like to make on this point. 388