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(EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Letter Signed to a Mr. W.W.
Baker.
Single leaf, on Tuskegee letterhead; creases where folded.
Tuskegee, May 31, 1913
[400/600]
Washington writes to W. W. Baker, professor of Greek at Haverford in Pennsylvania. “We are anx-
ious to end our school year free of debt . . .” he continues: “There are few institutions in the country
where the students do more to help themselves than is true here; they provide the cost of their board,
books, traveling expenses, clothing etc, but they are unable to pay the cost of tuition which is $50 a
year.”
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(EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Pair of Typed Letters
Signed to Mrs. John G. Walker of Boston.
8vo and 4to, creases where folded.
Tuskegee, March 28, December 1, 1914
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) in his typically gracious manner acknowledges past donations
and asks for further help to keep Tuskegee going. “There are most interesting and encouraging results
coming out of this effort every year—results in lifting up the colored people and in bringing the
Southern white to the point where they are seeing the value of Negro education and are becoming
more and more interested in it.” During the last year of his life, Washington quite literally worked
himself to death.
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