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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Milliken Parker

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Milliken Parker

President Roosevelt responds to a letter from his friend John Milliken Parker. Roosevelt remarks on Parker’s “hysterical tone” suggesting that “increase of rape” and the “relations of the races” has anything to do with Roosevelt’s friendship with Booker T. Washington. Roosevelt does not believe he needs to speak to the press as Parker suggests and gives many examples when he expounded his beliefs on the matter of race relations. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Caroline L. Rodman to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Caroline L. Rodman to Theodore Roosevelt

Caroline L. Rodman hopes Theodore Roosevelt and Hamilton Wright Mabie, through whom she sends the letter, would be willing to help the Orange Guild of the Church Institute for Negroes. They hope to endow and support five church schools, similarly to the Tuskegee Institute. Booker T. Washington addressed the group this year, and they hope Roosevelt and Mabie may be able to address a meeting of the group next year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-23

Creator(s)

Rodman, Caroline L. (Caroline Louise), 1861-1919

Excerpt from the President’s annual message to Congress

Excerpt from the President’s annual message to Congress

President Roosevelt examines various social premises in American society that are inherently unequal for African Americans. Roosevelt calls on white Americans to seek out the good in neighbors, regardless of race, and with the goal of improving life and prosperity for all Americans. Roosevelt believes that skin color detrimentally impacts the black population’s ability to live free without the threat of violence, achieve a good education, and acquire a good paying job. The mob mentality that adversely targets African Americans must be rooted out. In relation to capital and labor, Roosevelt again criticizes the mob mentality that excites violent class hatred against the wealthy. It is not in America’s interest to elect anyone whose platform is built on “violence and hypocrisy.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Family life in the home: theme of President’s address to students at Hampton Normal Institute

Family life in the home: theme of President’s address to students at Hampton Normal Institute

In an address at Hampton Normal School, President Roosevelt praised the school for making colored men and women better citizens because “in the interests of the white man” it is the “safest and best thing that could happen.” He urged members of his audience to “take up work on the farm” and do “hand work” but “develop his brain to guide his hand work…” “Most important of all is character… to secure their own self respect and the respect of others…” Roosevelt concluded that, “The negro criminal… tends to the bitter animosities, the bitter prejudices for which, not he alone, but his whole race will suffer.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-31

Creator(s)

Associated Press