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Berkley A. Mills asks Theodore Roosevelt to include African American volunteers in his division. He does not want to be “Jim-crowed” and asks to not be segregated in service.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-13
W. E. Dame encloses more letters regarding the recruitment of African American soldiers for service.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-06-09
Colonel Scott offers Theodore Roosevelt a full regiment of “colored soldiers” for the war front. He is a Spanish-American War veteran and state senator of California.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05
Bee Abram offers to raise a company of “Afro-American” Texans to serve with Theodore Roosevelt in France.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank O. Lowden for the telegram, dated May 17, 1917, and states that it has been put on file but that he has no idea what he can do.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-18
Frank O. Lowden, Illinois Governor, sends his recommendation for John R. Marshall to “raise a colored volunteer regiment” to serve in France.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-17
Wesley L. Sledge requests permission to “muster a regiment of colored soldiers.” Letterhead is from “The Michigan Tailoring Company,” a supplier of military equipment and a state organizer of N.A.A.C.P.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-16
F. S. Stover offers to supply and equip a regiment of 1,000 “colored men” to serve with Theodore Roosevelt. Stover lists equipment he will provide and notes he has influence with “colored people” in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. He will supply specialists; i.e. cooks, stevedores. Letterhead from “The Class & Nachod Brewing Co.,” Philadelphia.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-16
James T. Simpson, principal of the Belzoni Agricultural and Industrial Institution, asks to serve with Theodore Roosevelt. He can raise a regiment and wishes “representation of the Colored boys” from the Spanish-American War.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-15
Stephan A. McMuramin writes that he is organizing an African American regiment and wants to know if Theodore Roosevelt would take it with him to fight in France. Most of the men have prior military experience.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-15
Edmond B. Foreman offers to gather volunteers for an African American company in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Foreman is a Spanish-American War veteran.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-14
Charles P. M. Lord, Charles C. Estes, and Albert R. Lamb offer to raise and train a regiment of African American troops. All have military experience, foreign language skills, and are active police officers in Washington, D.C.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-14
Colonel Turner writes that he wants a position as a “Colored American” in Theodore Roosevelt’s division. He is a member of the Omaha Fire Department and the U.R.K. of P’s (Uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias). Turner requests a reconsideration of a rejection letter he received from a previous military examination.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-13
James Stewart, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, writes that he wants to raise an African American company for Theodore Roosevelt.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-12
A.M.E. ministers in Chicago congratulate Theodore Roosevelt and recommend that Colonel John R. Marshall raise an African American infantry regiment to accompany Roosevelt to war.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-15
John R. Marshall offers to raise a regiment of African American men. He has experience with the Illinois National Guard and fought in the Spanish-American War with the 8th Illinois Infantry.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-12
Theodore Roosevelt writes that he will consult with William Jay Schieffelin on Lieutenant Colonel Young’s request to join “a special regiment.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-15
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. Dame acknowledges H. A. Williamson’s letter and advises that Roosevelt has not yet been authorized to raise a division.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-11
The editor of the Journal of Race Development of Clark University, George Washington Ellis, congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on his Chicago address and asks Roosevelt to recruit “colored men” as soldiers and officers when in Illinois.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-04
The author in this letter requests information for Theodore Roosevelt on the men available for service in “Colored Regiment” W. A. Hayne wrote as being ready to enlist in San Francisco.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-14