Letter from Booker T. Washington to Theodore Roosevelt
Booker T. Washington would like Charles William Anderson of New York to be a delegate at the upcoming convention (presumably the Republican National Convention), in order to provide leadership to the other colored men who will serve as delegates. He asks President Roosevelt to urge Governor Benjamin B. Odell or Senator Thomas Collier Platt to have Anderson elected from one of the New York districts. He himself is being encouraged to go as a delegate for the State of Alabama but will not do so.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-02-19