Letter from Alexander Walters to W. E. B. Du Bois

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Title:
Letter from Alexander Walters to W. E. B. Du Bois
Description:
Proposing the formation of a committee that would include Du Bois to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt to address the upholding of the Fifteenth Amendment in possible Supreme Court cases, the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution including passenger service and national to Southern education. Also signed by Kelly Miller. Du Bois's handwritten draft response on page 3.
Creator:
Walters, Alexander, b. 1858
Addressee:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Date:
January 13, 1905
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 006 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1. Correspondence
Subjects:
African Americans--Education
African Americans--Race identity
Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation--United States
Discrimination--United States
Places:
United States
Extent:
3 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b006-i075
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Boston (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b006-i075