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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Shepard

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Shepard

President Roosevelt has received James E. Shepard’s letter, as well as the various letters attesting to Shepard’s character and praising his work. While Roosevelt cannot speak personally about Shepard’s ability to establish the school he proposes, he says that the plan is an admirable one and wishes Shepard success.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles A. Gardiner

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles A. Gardiner

President Roosevelt believes that educating African Americans is only one part of the problem and has not yet looked into the violations of the fourteenth amendment. Roosevelt will not speak publicly on the topic and doubts that scholastic education would help a community that would elect James Vardaman, they would need “lessons of decency and honor” before seeing to the education of the illiterate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-18

Letter from W. P. Thirkield to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from W. P. Thirkield to Theodore Roosevelt

W. P. Thirkield asks Theodore Roosevelt to write an endorsement of the American Interchurch College for Religious and Social Workers to aid in its fundraising campaign. The addition of a department for “the training of colored workers” is “one of the most encouraging and hopeful movements” in race relations since the Civil War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-25

Letter from J. T. Kerr to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from J. T. Kerr to Theodore Roosevelt

J. T. Kerr inquires if Theodore Roosevelt would be willing to assist the New Bern Collegiate Industrial Institute for the Training of Colored Young Men and Women concerning their work. The Institute’s brick yard has orders for over a million bricks, and if they can find assistance in the form of three thousand dollars, there would be untold benefit to the public.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-31

Letter from Caroline L. Rodman to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Caroline L. Rodman to Theodore Roosevelt

Caroline L. Rodman hopes Theodore Roosevelt and Hamilton Wright Mabie, through whom she sends the letter, would be willing to help the Orange Guild of the Church Institute for Negroes. They hope to endow and support five church schools, similarly to the Tuskegee Institute. Booker T. Washington addressed the group this year, and they hope Roosevelt and Mabie may be able to address a meeting of the group next year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-23

Letter from Paul Paquin to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Paul Paquin to Theodore Roosevelt

Paul Paquin is inspired by President Roosevelt’s “courageous application of justice” in the incident with the African American soldiers stationed near Brownsville, Texas. Paquin suggests that the country needs a thorough and unbiased investigation of the “negro problem.” He believes that education has failed to instill a “fixed moral sense” in African Americans, and he is concerned by their drop in productivity over the past forty years. Paquin has hope that African Americans can be made into “useful” citizens.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-03

Letter from Clark Howell to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Clark Howell to Theodore Roosevelt

Clark Howell, editor of The Constitution, encloses recent editorials from the four daily newspapers of Atlanta, Georgia. Howell says the keynote of investigation in order to get at the truth of the “race problem” runs through them all, and he notes that this is the first instance in which the four newspapers of Atlanta have ever discussed any proposition along the same general line. Howell suggests the creation of a nonpartisan commission tasked with investigating the issue of whether or not the education of the negro race is “proving his ruination.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-24

Letter from William H. Fleming to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from William H. Fleming to Theodore Roosevelt

Politician and orator William H. Fleming believes President Roosevelt wishes “to do the best thing possible for the whole country, including our Southern white people, and not excluding the negroes.” Many Georgia locals agree with outspoken men like T. W. Hardwick though the South owes no allegiance to the 14th and 15th Amendment. South Carolina politician Coleman Livingston Blease has argued against education for African Americans and called for the university in Orangeburg to be torn down. Fleming asks Roosevelt if the government can make a statement of clarity regarding the amendments to help “check the riotous tendency down here.” Fleming believes that any man not willing to commit to the Constitution and its amendments should be stripped of their seat and discusses counter efforts against the passage of disenfranchisement laws.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-24

Letter from Washington, D.C., negro teachers to Joseph A. Goulden

Letter from Washington, D.C., negro teachers to Joseph A. Goulden

A group of African American teachers from the Washington, D.C., public school system writes to Representative Goulden about his education bill and the state of the educational system in Washington, D.C., for African American children. They ask for Goulden’s assistance in establishing an associate superintendent who would advocate for African American children.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-12

Union industrial training school

Union industrial training school

The officers and trustees of the Union Industrial Training School certify that they have purchased 80 acres with deeds to build the school on. The institution seeks to train “colored youths” in learning and trades. They ask for donations to help this cause.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-29