The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 553, Mar. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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MARCH . 1906 too much trouble, who of the persons on the enclosed list voted at the last Presidential election, and indicate also which of them have met the conditions for voting in the way of paying poll taxes, etc. Yours truly, Bishop Turner Bishop Gaines Dr. Bowen Mr. I. Garland Penn Prof. Hopes Prof. Towns Dr. DuBois Prof. Crogman Dr. Flippers J. Max Barber Mr. Herndon TLpS Con. 4 BTW Papers DLC. ~ John Hope (~868-~936) was the son of a white man and a black woman of Augusta, Ga. He graduated from Worcester, Mass., Academy and Brown University (B.A., 1894). He taught at Roger Williams University (~894-98) and then at Atlanta Baptist College (later Morehouse College) after 1898. He was president of Morehouse from 1906 to 19 and led in the merger of the several Atlanta black colleges into a new Atlanta University, of which he was president from 19 until his death. Hope's membership in the Niagara Movement alienated BTW and his philanthropist friends, until R. R. Moton, a friend of both, restored a measure of mutual respect. In Hog BTW aided Hope's effort to secure money from Andrew Carnegie. Hope joined the NAACP and served on its advisory board. He was a close friend of Du Bois and offered him employment at Atlanta University wher1 Du Bois broke his connection with the NAACP. (Torrance, John Hope; Meter, Negro Thought, ~4.) 2 Joseph Simeon Flipper (~859?-~944), an A.M.E. clergyman, was president of Morris Brown College in Atlanta from 1909 to 1908. He was a bishop of the A.M.E. Church beginning in 1908. Booker T. Washington To Henry Smith Pritchett, (Tuskegee, Ala.] March 2 I, 1906 Dear Dr. Pritchett: I am in entire ignorance concerning the conditions under which persons can receive help from the Carnegie Foundation. I have in mind one of my old teachers,2 a man now 553