The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 552, Mar. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers civilization. With the African people, as I have known them, feeling, and particularly religious and social feelings, enter more or less into everything that they do. Experience in the Southern States has proved that experiments that do not reckon with this fact will not succeed. For this reason, if for no other, I am disposed to believe that no attempt to educate the native peoples of Africa or to lift them to a higher plane of industrial efficiency, will have any permanent success that does not go hand in hand with the teaching of the Christian religion, or at least with a devotion and desire to help the-people similar to that which has inspired the work of the missionaries in Africa. I believe it is a wise policy which induced the English Government in South Africa and in India to give substantial aid without reference to the sect or creed they represented, to those mission schools where industrial training was taught. But without reference to any specific measures that could or should be taken for the betterment of the native peoples of Africa, it seems to me it is a seasonable time for the friends of Africa to come together. An international council, should it do no more than outline in opposition to the policy of forced labor and ruthless commercial exploitation, some plan for the encouragement and further extension of industrial education in Africa, would have done much to secure the future of what is, whatever its faults, one of the most useful races the world has ever known. Independent, 60 (Mar. ~5, 1906), 6~9. Copy in Con. 9 , BlV\i~ Papers, DLC. ~ Momolu Massaquoi was the author of lithe Republic of Liberia (~9~6). His was a ruling family of Sierra Leone who for several centuries supplied slaves to European traders. To Henry A. Rucker ''Tuskegee, Ala.] March 20, 1906 Coned entiat My dear Mr. Rucker: Without letting any one know who wants the information, will you be kind enough to find out for me, if it is not 552