The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 152, Dec. 1906, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers slowly gathering force in Atlanta ever since the riot. In my opinion, it is the sanest, wisest and most helpful undertaking that has been put on foot by Southern white people to change present conditions. The effort is led by a young white lawyer, a native Georgian and a graduate of Williams College, seconded by ax-Governor Northen. The foundation stone of their organization, which already contains the names of several hundred of the best white people in Georgia and is later to have the names of boo of the same element of the colored people, is justice to the Negro. I hope you will follow this movement. The most discouraging feature of it, however, is in the fact that notwithstanding the work is going on almost daily in Atlanta, the press outside of Atlanta, especially in the North, gives no attention to it. I have sent Mr. VilIard clippings and ~ hope he will publish them. I shall hope to go to Atlanta next Sunday to speak in connection with it. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. ~ BTW Papers DLC. To Samuel Laing Williams [Tuskegee, Ala.] December 3, 1906 Personal My dear Mr. Williams: The enclosed anonymous letter may mean very little, but I pass it on to you. It is one of many that I get. It is one of the straws that shows that the feeling between the Northern white people and the Southern white people is getting more akin all the time. You already know my position on the President's action. I very much fear that these frequent meetings held by these agitators is hurting us tremendously in the North, in fact I am sure they are. There are many sections of the North where the Negro as an individual or as a race is not thought of separate from the other portion of American citizenship except when the attention of the white people is called to it through these meetings. If our people would have a meeting once in a while for the purpose of starting a bank, insurance company or building a railroad or ~2