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A list of all men of color appointed to or continued in office by President Roosevelt, complete with the office and date.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01
Captain Beaumont B. Buck of the 16th U.S. Infantry Division commends Captain David B. Mulliken on his service in Alabama in 1899.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-13
Vice President Roosevelt’s time is limited and he is unable to accept the invitation from R. E. Pettus and the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville, Alabama, to visit their city.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-07
Dr. Louis Edelman thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his recent article inThe Outlook entitled “Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood.” Edelman shares his own experience with children working in the local mill, one as young as six years old who worked twelve hours each night for twelve cents. Edelman states children are being eaten up by the industrial mills in the South, but society wants the mills so they are not going away.
Alma Whaley was a child laborer in Chattanooga, Tennessee who made a suicide pact with other children working twelve hour a day, six days a week, in a cotton mill. Dr. Louis Edelman appears to use her name to refer to all child laborers who are suffering.
Judge Thomas Goode Jones sends William Loeb a report of a grand jury from Huntsville, Alabama, and hopes that he will show it to President Roosevelt at some point when he is not working. Jones comments that “the great mass of the people are right,” and that although the jury was made up of different political parties, they were unanimous in denouncing the actions of the mob.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-25
Charles R. Greenleaf was briefly in Cuba checking on the spread of yellow fever and seeing many Rough Riders, but not learning their names. He will write if he hears anything about John Campbell Greenway. The Greenway name brought back memories of Greenleaf’s “pleasantest years” spent in Huntsville, Alabama.
1898-08-12
Calling card of Willard I. Wellman of Huntsville, Alabama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10