Your TR Source
Frederic John Paxon, President of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, asks Theodore Roosevelt to have his secretary send his current plans for his upcoming visit to the city. He mentions several possible engagements for Roosevelt, as well as a proposal to have a small committee escort Roosevelt from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-04
George B. Hinman asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak in Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association’s efforts to raise funds for a memorial to Joel Chandler Harris. A list of the Association’s committees listed on the back.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-03-19
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-24
Booker T. Washington writes to Christopher J. Perry about Perry’s recent editorial about President Roosevelt and the Atlanta race riot. Washington defends Roosevelt’s lack of federal action in favor of local and state authorities handling the matter, which has raised public conscience and a closer relationship between the whites and the colored people that exists no where else in the South.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-05
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt that he is sorry to have kept the letter from William H. Fleming so long. He mentions the “barbaric” recent riots in Atlanta and the “splendid work Taft is doing in Cuba.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-24
Walter H. Johnson writes to President Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb, asking for advice regarding whether the Georgia Republican State Committee should call for a state convention. Under current rules of representation, “three-fourths of the delegates will be colored,” which Johnson believes would “greatly intensify the race feeling.” John Marshall Ashley is calling for the committee to change the basis of representation so that a larger portion would be white, and if the change is not made Johnson expects the organization to splinter. Johnson does not think the Republican State Committee will have candidates for Governor or other State House offices, so he is mainly concerned about the impact of the current situation in 1908.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-24
Seth Low offers to Clark Howell a letter for publication by The Atlanta Constitution. The letter relates to the topic of racial purity and how it is viewed in the North and in the South. Because Howell is presently running for governor of Georgia and may find the letter embarrassing, Low offers to give the letter to another publication if Howell would prefer it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-01
Corinne Stocker Horton reminds President Roosevelt of their conversation regarding Roosevelt’s opinion of Jefferson Davis as expressed in his biography of Thomas H. Benton. She asks if she can publish those remarks in the Atlanta Constitution. Clarke Howell wishes to use the remarks to write an editorial in response to attacks from Davis’ friends and family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-11
The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that its annual meeting for 2006 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. The announcement includes a list of the four speakers at a symposium on the Roosevelt family, and it notes their publications and the topic they will be addressing.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2006
Photograph showing President Roosevelt on platform facing an immense seated crowd.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-10-30
Photograph showing President Roosevelt addressing crowd seated behind him on platform; an immense crowd also seated in front of platform.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-10-30
A reprint of John E. White’s sermon on the Young Men’s Christian Association’s relation to Jews and Catholics. He calls for inclusivity, declaring the institution “is avowedly without ecclesiastical character.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-17
President Roosevelt informs Clark Howell that his wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will only be in Atlanta for a couple hours and asks if it would be possible for her to meet Joel Chandler Harris while she is there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-11
President Roosevelt’s recent tour through the Southern United States was a success, and saw him give speeches to many enthusiastic audiences along the way. In addition to visiting several state capitals, Roosevelt visited his mother’s hometown of Roswell, Georgia, and spoke with a number of people who knew her. Other highlights of Roosevelt’s trip included a stop he made at Tuskegee, Alabama, and a speech he made at Little Rock, Arkansas, where he spoke out against lynching. In an editorial, the Christian Herald praises Roosevelt’s trip as having been very productive in demonstrating that the North and South have put away the resentment which had previously existed between them. Other articles present on these pages include editorials on life insurance management, missionary work in India, commentary on “National righteousness,” and a request for charitable contributions.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation
1905-11-08
African Americans and Civil War veterans appear among a crowd that passes a statue of Abraham Lincoln on their way to the Cotton States Exposition visible in the background, labeled “Prosperity.” In the left foreground is a large man labeled “Free Labor” standing with the tools of labor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-23
Anna Roosevelt Cowles has sent a very helpful letter, for which President Roosevelt sends his thanks.
1905-10-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Charles H. Barnes for the letter he sent to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-25
This brochure for the Lowry National Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, describes the resources, liabilities, officers, and directors of the bank as of close of business on November 10, 1904.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-10
Elizabeth E. Baker writes to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to request used clothing. Baker, a young African American woman, describes being assaulted on a Mississippi trolley car, leaving her with injuries that require her to change her career and move from Mississippi to Atlanta, Georgia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-19
Henry Lincoln Johnson supports the reappointment of Christopher C. Wimbish as Surveyor of the Port of Atlanta and he hopes that Clarkson can speak with President Roosevelt on the issue. Johnson argues that the people of Atlanta have a good deal of respect for Johnson, and that the only complaint against him is his race. A white man, Marcellus O. Markham, is being pushed by his brother-in-law Captain Lowry. Newspapers and politicians attest to the ability of Wimbish.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-29