The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 680, Oct. 1908, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers greatest there is the application of the remedy most needed. It is therefore to be hoped that a great pacificator like the Tuskegeean will continue to spread his optimism by the special car method in addition to all the other means he has hitherto employed. A trip through Texas, through Arkansas and through Louisiana ought logically to follow Dr. Washington's helpful tour through · · . — MISSISSIPPI. H. T. KNEADING A.M.E. Church Review, P5, (OCt. 1908), 2~27. ~ E. P. Simmons, principal for many years of a black school in Hollandale, Miss., was Margaret M. Washington's brother-in-law and the father of Roscoe Conkling Simmons. 2 Wayne Wellington Cox (b.~864), a graduate of Alcorn A & M College, was one of the largest black planters in Mississippi. He later was a postal employee in the railway mail service. Beginning in 1906 he was cashier of the Delta Penny Savings Bank in Indianola. In egos Cox's wife, Minnie M. Cox, was postmaster of the Indianola postoffice when James K. Vardaman demanded her removal. Theodore Roosevelt refused to remove her from once but closed the postoffice instead. (Gatewood, ''Theodore Roosevelt and the Indianola Affair,'' 48~9.) 3 J. A. Martin was also president of the Mississippi Colored State Teacher's Association. 4 Hiram Rhodes Revels (~8~7-~go~) was the first black man to serve in the U.S. Senate (~870-7~. Born of free parents in Fayetteville, N.C., he attended a Quaker seminary in Indiana and Knox College. After ordination in the A.M.E. Church, he taught, lectured, and preached throughout the Midwest. During the Civil War he assisted in organizing black regiments in Maryland and Missouri. Moving to Mississippi in the wake of the Union Army, he organized black churches and schools and made Natchez his home, serving a term on its city council. Thereafter he served in the state legislature and the U.S. Senate, where he supported a bill to end the disfranchisement of ax-Confederates. Appointed president of Alcorn University, he so ingratiated himself with white Mississippians that he lost the support of blacks, and Governor Adelbert Ames removed him from office. When the white Democrats returned to power in 1875 with Revels's support, he was reappointed president of Alcorn. (Wharton, The Negro in Mississippi, ~5,9-60.) 5 Alex Teague, born in Moscow, Tenn., in 1866, was the pastor of the Holly Springs Baptist Church. 6 Barnes D. Lynch was the first black man to hold a major state office in Mississippi, that of secretary of state. A well-educated Pennsylvanian, he moved to Mississippi in 1868 to take charge of the A.M.E. Church in the state. A superb orator and a fluent, graceful conversationalist, he enjoyed the respect of both blacks and whites. When he ran for Congress in 18 on the Republican ticket, however, white Republican rivals took him into court on a charge of adultery and prevented his nomination. He died soon afterward. (Wharton, The Negro in Mississippi, ,, ~54-5~,.) 7 Thomas W. Stringer, a black Ohioan, moved to Mississippi during Reconstruction as superintendent of missions and presiding elder of the A.M.E. Church, a work for which he had been trained in Ohio. He was the chief organizer for his church in the state, and also introduced the Masons and the Knights of Pythias in Mississippi. 68o