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Reverend Rush acknowledges Theodore Roosevelt’s letter accepting the invitation to speak to the African American people of Atlanta while he is in town on March 9. Rush asks Roosevelt to inform him if he would like to speak on any particular topic.
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1911-02-16
John Milliken Parker thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his recent letter, and promises to do his best to travel with Roosevelt on the leg of his journey from Atlanta, Georgia to Louisiana. He encloses a copy of the letter he sent to LeRoy Percy.
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1911-02-16
Charles H. Davis acknowledges Frank Harper’s previous letter and says that Theodore Roosevelt has written and agreed to address the African Americans citizens of Atlanta.
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1911-02-14
Governor Noel is sorry that Theodore Roosevelt’s wife Edith and daughter Ethel will not be with him when he visits Mississippi. Noel notes that he is attending the Southern Commercial Congress in Atlanta and will travel part of the way from there with Roosevelt.
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1911-02-06
Mary Mitchell invites Theodore Roosevelt to be her houseguest when he visits Atlanta.
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1911-02-04
Alvan F. Sherrill praises a speech that Theodore Roosevelt gave in Atlanta last year. He hopes that Roosevelt will be president again.
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1911-02-02
John Milliken Parker is pleased Theodore Roosevelt will visit Atlanta, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He is certain Roosevelt will receive a “sincerely hearty welcome.” Parker is eager to do anything to serve Roosevelt.
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1911-01-21
John W. Grant, President of the Capital City Club of Atlanta, Georgia, informs William Bailey Howland of some details regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming visit to the city.
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1910-09-30
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.
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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.
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1910-03-19
Editor Edward Hubert Butler directs President Roosevelt to read an editorial in the Atlanta Sunday Constitution, a Democratic newspaper.
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1907-03-10
Attorney General Bonaparte reports to President Roosevelt that Robert T. Devlin, U. S. Attorney, will be headed east as soon as he can get on a train. Bonaparte will not come to Washington until Wednesday, assuming Roosevelt does not need him before then to discuss United States v. Wickersham (201 U.S. 390) and the pay increase for the warden of the federal prison reservation in Atlanta, Georgia.
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1906-12-22
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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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1905-09-01
Unknown author accounts the details of the tax evasion trial against S. A. Darnell Jr., John A. Scott, and Sam Jefferson which took place in Cherokee County, Georgia, in 1902.
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1905-06-18
Clark Howell regrets that he will not be able to get to Washington, D.C. at this point in time to meet with President Roosevelt. Howell happened to run into ex-Governor Joseph Forney Johnston and they talked. Johnston did not discuss with Roosevelt all he wished to get through. Howell wishes Roosevelt to know that Montgomery would be a great place to mention the Jefferson Davis incident and that only a general reference would be needed.
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1905-06-08
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.
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1905-05-11