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Booker T. Washington encloses a copy of his annual report and hopes that Theodore Roosevelt can read it before the meeting of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees in October.
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1912-09-25
The Tuskegee Board of Trustees will have their winter meeting in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 21-23, 1913.
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1912-11-11
Booker T. Washington hopes that Theodore Roosevelt can attend the Tuskegee Board of Trustees meeting tomorrow. If not, he would appreciate a word of greeting with Roosevelt’s regrets.
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1912-06-26
Booker T. Washington encloses a letter from Governor O’Neal.
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1912-05-06
Booker T. Washington encloses a report by A. F. Owens on the standing and work of the Tuskegee Institute’s graduates and former students in the Birmingham, Alabama, area.
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1912-05-24
Booker T. Washington understands why Theodore Roosevelt cannot attend the Tuskegee Board of Trustees meeting but is pleased to announce that Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck and Company has agreed to join the Board. Washington felt that it was his duty to press charges in the Ulrich assault case even though he doubted there would ever be a conviction. Almost all evidence presented in Henry Albert Ulrich’s defense has been “pure fabrication.”
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1911-12-12
Booker T. Washington encloses a letter from Julius Rosenwald.
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1911-12-04
The next meeting of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees that Theodore Roosevelt would be expected to attend will be in February in Tuskegee, Alabama. Booker T. Washington hopes that Roosevelt can attend.
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1911-12-02
Booker T. Washington requests that Theodore Roosevelt deliver a brief speech at a meeting for the Tuskegee Institute to be held at Lake Mohonk, New York.
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1911-07-22
Booker T. Washington tells Theodore Roosevelt that the Tuskegee Board of Trustees has decided to accept a gift from Mrs. Charles E. Mason to build a new hospital. At the request of Mrs. Mason, the building will be named John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital.
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1911-07-12
Booker T. Washington encloses an account of the Tuskegee Institute’s commencement exercises from The Montgomery Advertiser. Commencement was very successful with around 8,000 people in attendance.
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1911-05-27
Booker T. Washington has decided to follow Theodore Roosevelt’s advice regarding Henry Albert Ulrich, a man who had assaulted Washington. He believes that Roosevelt will be sympathetic to the “sensational newspaper misrepresentations” accompanying Ulrich’s prosecution.
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1911-04-19
Booker T. Washington suggests moving up the date for the meeting of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees.
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1911-02-22
After consulting with Seth Low, Booker T. Washington has been directed to inform Theodore Roosevelt that the annual meeting of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees will be held in New York City on June 29.
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1911-02-11
Booker T. Washington encloses a letter extract from one of his friends in Wisconsin. He hopes that Theodore Roosevelt can attend the Board of Trustees meeting for the Tuskegee Institute.
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1911-01-23
Booker T. Washington thought that Lawrence F. Abbott would be interested in seeing the enclosed sentence from one of Washington’s friends in Wisconsin.
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1911-01-20
Booker T. Washington invites Theodore Roosevelt to join the Board of Trustees of the Tuskegee Institute after his return from Africa.
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1909-03-09
President Roosevelt sent Booker T. Washington a draft of his letter to the Interstate Commerce Commission, which Washington now returns with some suggestions. He would like Roosevelt to emphasize that he wants the same justice done regarding humans as to freight. Roosevelt writes that several roads in the South do right by African Americans, but Washington would like him to work the sentence into the letter in such a way that newspapers cannot cut it out.
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1908-03-28
Booker T. Washington waited several days before responding to William Loeb because he wanted to study the situation. The question that is troubling him regards Charles H. Scott and his dislike of Frank H. Hitchcock. It is important to have his vote and influence in the National Committee, but Washington suspects that Scott will try to act against Hitchcock and thereby against Secretary of War William H. Taft’s candidacy.
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1908-02-24
Booker T. Washington updates William Loeb on matters in Alabama, including several upcoming meetings he has scheduled, as well as the fact that the state committee in Birmingham, Alabama, endorsed President Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft.
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1908-02-22