The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 226, Mar. 1907, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers As we understand it, Mr. Penney has been dismissed from Tuskegee, or his resignation required, because of certain charges of immoral conduct which he positively denies and the truth or falsehood of which has not been determined by any impartial tribunal. If Mr. Penney is morally unfit to be a teacher at Tuskegee he is also unfit to be a trustee of Atlanta University. But how are we to know whether he is or not if you do not know? If this question is left to our Board to determine, there are certain points on which it is important that we have accurate information. So far as we have been informed, the charges referred to are based solely on the testimony of a young, girl student whose own character and testimony have been impeached by letters found in her trunk, the discovery of which has resulted in her own dismissal from Tuskegee. If there has been any corroborative evidence of her testimony, it would seem important for us to have it. We understand also that in all the many years that Mr. Penney has worked at Tuskegee his moral character has never been assailed but in one previous instance, in which case, after careful investigation, he was completely vindicated; and yet that this former case has been coupled with the present one as a basis of the action just taken against him. If we have been misinformed as to this, we desire to know the truth. I trust that you will realize that in making these enquiries I have in view not only the preservation, if possible, of the good name of a man who for more than thirty years has been rendering faithful and valuable Christian service, but also the good name of the two institutions with which he has been so closely identified. Yours very sincerely, Horace Bumstead TLS Con. 364 BTW Papers DLC. Emmett Jay Scott to Theodore Roosevelt Tuskegee, Alabama, March 8, 1907 My dear Mr. President: I have the honor to ask you to issue an order that six of the batteries of Field Artillery and not less than 226