The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 39, July 1906, U. of Illinois Press

The page presentation framework of the Booker T. Washington papers is designed to provide researchers worldwide with searchable access to the thousands of pages comprising the fourteen volumes, most of which are out of print. Adapted from the National Academy Press's Open Book framework, this framework allows searching down to the page level, provides sorting of search results chronologically, enables easy navigation across multiple volumes, and allows page-by-page local printing (via PDF) of every page.

[ Top of Page ]

[ Home ]

[ Contact Us ]

[ Help ]

OCRed data provided for searching only.
JULY 1 906 you when in Boston. At any rate I could not decide to come there and speak to a miscellaneous audience, but if the representative element, to which you referred cared to give a dinner, making the price so low that the masses could attend I should consider the matter. I wish to repeat so far as my own interests are concerned these people have done me all the harm they possibly can and their opposition and actions are of no importance, but their position and actions are of vital interest to the people of Boston. Very truly yours, tBooker T. Washington] TLc Con. To BTW Papers DLC. William L. Reed (~866-~943) held several public offices in Boston. In 1896 he was the first black man elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, a post he held for two terms. From 1898 to Moo he was deputy collector of internal revenue, and from Moo to egos he was deputy tax collector for Boston. For twenty-two years, beginning in egos, Reed was a clerk and messenger in the executive department of the Massachusetts State House. In 192` Governor Channing Cox appointed Reed to the position of executive secretary of the governor's council. 2 Reed reported to BTW harsh criticisms of him by other blacks at a Faneuil Hall meeting on June co. He urged BTW to come to Boston and answer ''such wild, irresponsible utterances as we have to hear from day to day, now.'' (June at, 1906, Con. Ho, BTW Papers, DLC.) Emmett Jay Scott to Richard W. Thompson ''Tuskegee, Ala.] July a, 1906 Dear Mr. Thompson: The Afro-American Council was held in Louisville, Ky., as you may recall, the latter part of June and the first of July, three years ago. Trotter and his crowd were present and kicked up their usual furore. I got up for one of the evening papers, I do not recall which, a column of interviews with prominent colored men who were present at the meeting as to what they thought of Trotter and his gang; among others Morris joined in the general condemnation. I am wondering if it will be possible for you to see the files of the evening papers for July I, ~ or 3 and locate these interviews 39