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After consulting with Seth Low, Booker T. Washington has been directed to inform Theodore Roosevelt that the annual meeting of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees will be held in New York City on June 29.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-11
Booker T. Washington encloses a letter extract from one of his friends in Wisconsin. He hopes that Theodore Roosevelt can attend the Board of Trustees meeting for the Tuskegee Institute.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-23
Booker T. Washington invites Theodore Roosevelt to join the Board of Trustees of the Tuskegee Institute after his return from Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-09
Charles William Anderson informs William Loeb that Roscoe Conkling Simmons, Booker T. Washington’s nephew by marriage, has started a newspaper in New York that aligns with the political leanings of Benjamin B. Odell and Lemuel Ely Quigg. Other friends of Washington have also expressed political opinions contrary to Roosevelt, and Anderson intends to tell Washington that he ought to stand by the President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-12
Booker T. Washington writes to President Roosevelt including a newspaper clipping from the Montgomery Daily Advertiser. Washington notes that the newspaper clipping shows the appointment of a recommended postmaster and believes that Alabama will meet and even surpass the “Mississippi Standard.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-14
In three speeches on October 20, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a variety of topics in front of crowds in Roswell and Atlanta, Georgia. Roosevelt notes the courage and devotion to duty of soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, and he states that he can take pride in his Southern heritage. Roosevelt asserts that large corporations should be regulated by the federal government and that political corruption should be identified and eliminated. He notes that the problem of Chinese immigration needs to be addressed by Congress, and he comments on the importance of cotton to the Southern economy. Roosevelt also states that he enjoys the stories of Georgia’s Joel Chandler Harris precisely because they have moral themes that imbue him “with the purpose of being a better man.” John A. Gable provides an introduction to the speeches.
Six photographs of Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia, accompany the text as does a photograph of nearby Barrington Hall. A text box lists the members of the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Booker T. Washington reports that the visit by Robert C. Ogden and others to the Tuskegee Institute was successful. He encloses newspaper coverage of the event. Washington also explains that although he has sought it diligently, he has not discovered information that would allow him to change his opinion of Charles M. Ferguson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
A seat in the third carriage has been reserved for John Campbell Greenway.
1905-10-24
Black and white photograph of Theodore Roosevelt standing and speaking from a platform at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1907
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the work of the Tuskegee Institute. When Roosevelt is feeling less pressured, he would like to talk over conditions in the West Indies with Robert Russa Moton and Warren Logan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-04-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary confirms that Roosevelt will attend the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Tuskegee Institute on June 22.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
Trustee Seth Low of the Tuskegee Institute writes to the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, expressing his distress over recent criticism of Booker T. Washington that he has observed spreading in the South. The criticism surrounds Washington’s attendance at a luncheon in a Saratoga Hotel. Low clarifies that while Washington entered and left with John Wanamaker, he was not the escort of anyone in Wanamaker’s party. That said, Low points out that the newspaper reports of the Saratoga incident do not account for differences in race relations between the North and the South.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-30
Newspaper article attacking Senator Depew for speaking favorably of Booker T. Washington’s work and the industrial education of African Americans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06
Brief biography of Professor R. L. Hoffman, secretary of the executive committee for the Republican Party of Texas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-20
Booker T. Washington introduces Representative Thompson of Tuskegee, Alabama.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-04