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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 William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of War Taft would like President Roosevelt to read over his comments on the Brownsville affair and the discharge of African American soldiers from the 25th Infantry Regiment. In a postscript, Taft writes that he read the comments of Gilchrist Stewart on behalf of the discharged soldiers; he wonders if Stewart’s claims about the white townspeople killing the barkeeper, wounding the chief of police, and attacking women and children, before passing the blame onto the African American soldiers, are in fact possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930