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Letter from Robert Bingham to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Robert Bingham to Theodore Roosevelt

Robert Bingham thanks President Roosevelt for disbanding the battalion of the 25th Infantry, better known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Bingham encloses a document that discusses the “black race problem,” and points to the need for holding African Americans responsible for their crimes. Although Roosevelt discharged 167 soldiers for dishonorable conduct against white police officers in what was known as the Brownsville Affair, later evidence shows the men were not guilty.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-23

Creator(s)

Bingham, Robert, 1838-1927

Letter from John Allison to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from John Allison to Theodore Roosevelt

John Allison encloses a letter to the editor from the Nashville Banner for President Roosevelt to read. Allison tells Roosevelt that this communication verifies what he wrote in a letter to William Loeb. Allison believes that racial traits define how African Americans act when they protect other members of their race from what Allison describes as “lawful” punishment. He says that an African American clergyman, J.A. Jones, admitted this. Allison cannot remember a time when an African American denounced or condemned the criminal acts of another African American. He says while mob violence is sometimes “winked” at by the community and (police) officers, “it is condemned by the White pulpit in the South, almost all of the newspapers of influence, and by public meetings of the White population.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-24

Creator(s)

Allison, John, 1845-1920

Letter from Narciso Gener Gonzales

Letter from Narciso Gener Gonzales

Narciso Gener Gonzales claims that several years ago George R. Koester, John G. Capers, and W. W. Price shot an African American who had committed a crime. Koester and Capers hold federal appointments, and Price is a reporter for the Washington Star. Gonzales is distressed that South Carolina does not punish its white citizens who commit such crimes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-25

Creator(s)

Gonzales, Narciso Gener, 1858-1903