SPEECHES & WRITINGS FILE A Colored Woman in a White World (4) [*117*] home ever since I have had one - [a family time For a long time I enjoyed] One of Carlo Dolcis Madonnas which I purchased in Florence and of which I [was very] enjoyed [favored]very much was finally lost in some way - Most of my time in Florence was spent in study [and] or visiting the wonderful art galleries and in seeing the marvellous treasures of all kinds which that city contains and in taking long walks about the city [and] as well as in the suburbs. If I wanted to walk any where alone within a distance of 8 or 10 miles I did not hesitate to do so. It never occurred to me that [any] I wd be in any danger at all -[was attacked] I especially enjoyed [goin] visiting the [places and seeing the pictures mentioned by George Eliot in Ramola - I found two small volumes with white bindings trimmed in red which [had photographs ] [ha] unmounted photographer [*p148*] John H. Eaton Secy of war Pick The Jacksonian Epoch 10 yrs Senator from Tenn - Warner thos Timberlake widow of a purser in the navy who had committed murder _ Daughter of a Wash Tavern Keeper as "Peggy O'Neil" was popular with the gallants of the cabal Before her husbands death Eaton had been more attentive to her than was good for her reputation Know he found & recognized her Eaton resigned & was appointed gov of F to Van Buren minister to Eng new cabinet constructed Desertion & adultery UKRAINE DR. NADJA SUROWZOWA. Vice-President of the Ukrainian Section of the W. I. L. One of its founders. Took active part at the Vienna Congress where she protested against the programs in her own country. Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Petersburg. She was the only woman who passed into the Consular-Academy of Kiev. Worked in the Ukrainian Foreign Office as chief of one of the political departments. Vice-President of a union of thirty peasant clubs. Journalist. Member of the Ukrainian club of Writers and Journalists. Published a volume of Ukrainian Fairy Tales and has been a lecturer in Russian at the High School for Agriculture in Vienna. O. KHRAPKO DRAGOMANOWA President Ukrainian Section, W. I. L. Degree in law Imperial University of St. Petersburg. Active as a student in student pacifist organizations. One of five first women lawyers who were admitted to the bar in St. Petersburg. Instructor in night schools for working people 1918- Secretary in Department Foreign Affairs 1919- Member Ukrainian delegation to the Peace Conference in France. 1920- Member of the staff Ukrainian legation at Vienna. Writer and translator. [*Teaser of [?] a Fusale -*] 118 had been pasted on a page and inserted into the book opposite the passage which they illustrated. [With these pictures] As book in hand I went from place to place to see a picture or to stand on the very spot on which one of the [?] characters stood. I felt that I was walking and talking with the great novelist herself- The monasteries and the [minneries?] were a never-failing source of interest to me. I never tired of seeing the monks [and] themselves and the great stone structures hoary with age in which they lived and moved and had their being. I acquired the habit of going into the beautiful old Catholic churches several times a day. The architecture the pictures and the atmosphere of those grand old structures lifted me out of myself and directed my thots upward away from the material and sordid affairs of the earth. While I was at Florence I received the cablegram from my father telling me that he would leave Memphis on a certain date [take the Elba at New York] He had written me that if he decided to come for me that summer he wd cable me on a certain day. He probably sent the message some time in the afternoon but I did not receive it till long after midnight. I had almost concluded that he had decided not to make the SWEDEN (Continued) ESTHER PESKOW Vice-President of W.Y.C.A. in Stockholm. Teacher, author, lecturer, and Honorary Secretary of the Swedish section of the Women's International League. A delegate at the Vienna Congress in 1921. During the winter of 1923 and 1924 she visited the Ruhr district on Peace Mission work. HANNAH WIJUVLUDH Author, Honorary Secretary and Librarian of the Swedish Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. NAIMA SAHLBOM One of the foremost mineralogists of Europe. Delegate at the Women's Peace Congress at the Hague in 1915, Zurich in 1919, and The Hague in 1922. Editor of the Peace periodical "Nya Vagar" (New Paths). Lecturer. SWITZERLAND VILMA GLUCKLICH Secretary Women's International League at Geneva Headquarters. One of the founders and since President of Feministek Egyesulete-The Hungarian Section of both the W.I.L. and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. For twenty-five years a teacher of mathematics and physics in public schools, after having been the first woman student at the Hungarian University. Lecturer-as an advocate of women's rights, of peace and modern education all over Hungary and represented the Association of several Congresses. Lectured at the Summer School of Lugano in 1922. DR. GERTRUD WOKER Noted scientist-chemistry, physics, and biology. State of Bern founded a chair for Dr. Woker at the University of Bern that she might carry on her experimental work. Author of many scientific treatises, and of a book "die Katalyse". Lecturer on scientific subjects. Writer for feminist paper on the woman movement. TURKEY EPAISH YOUSSOFF Epaish Youssoff was brought up in a French Convent, later went to the American's Girl College in Constantinople where she took her bachelor's degree at eighteen years of age. A special student in philology at Freiburg. When the war came she was in Germany cut off from support and cared for herself by journalistic work and the publication of fiction in Germany. At present she is writing articles in Turkish for the Tanine Republican, the best paper in Turkey. [*What Scott accused me of*] [*losing my voice*] 119 voyage when the bell rang about two o'clock in the morning and the cablegram was placed in my hand. [I met my father] My father took the Elba & landed at Bremerhafen and came on to Frankfort on the Main & when I met him there, he had brought with him his two young children, Robert about 4 and Annette only 2. I immediately took charge of the little sister and my father looked after his young son. I had mapped out a delightful itinerary of several months not knowing the children wd be members of the party. And altho they were looked after carefully and their strength was not overtaxed in any way it was surprising how little of my original program had to be revised and eliminated and how much of it was carried out as originally planned in spite of the presence of two small children. First, we went from Frankfort on the Main to Heidelberg, not only to see that wonderful old castle which had been nearly destroyed by Napoleon, but to take a package to a daughter who was studying there which had been entrusted to my father by the mother who for years had lived next door to us and who belonged to one of the old aristocratic, slave-holding IRELAND MARIE JOHNSON Wife of leader of the labor opposition in the Irish Dail. Mrs. Johnson is the leader of the Irish Suffrage Movement. ITALY VIRGINIA PIATTI YANGO Writer and journalist at Florence, writing under the pseudonym "Agar". In 1917, she published "The Diary of a Nurse" of pacifistic tendency. Took part in the publication of "Coenobium" edited in Lugano by Bignami and attended a meeting of the League of neutral countries at Luganoin in 1914. Wrote for the review "Giovine Europe" (Young Europe) and a weekly pacifistic article for the magazine "Buon Consigliere" (Good Advisor) edited at Rome. Published a series of pacifistic novels under the heading "Sotto la Tempesta" (During the Storm) recently. She was one of the Italian Delegates at the Vienna Congress, 1924. NORWAY LYLIAN HOLEY A young Norwegian delegate, M. A. of the University of Christiania, has made her philological studies in France, England and Germany. She represented the Norwegian organisation of University Women at the meeting of their International Federation, London 1919. Took active part in the international Youth Movement after the war and attended the International You Congress at Copenhagen. POLAND BUDINSKA TYLICKA Student and graduate of a University in Paris. Doctor of medicine and practising in the city of Barsokie, Poland. For five years a member of the municipal board of her city and on the executive committee of the medical association. For thirty years a worker int he Women's movement of Poland. President of the Poland section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. SWEDEN MATHILDE WIDEGREN. President of Swedish Section. W. I. L. since 1919. Graduated at the Royal Training College, Stockholm. Teacher for a great many years, now Assistant Headmistress at the State Normal School for Girls. Member Swedish Commission of the World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. Delegate to International Congress of Women at the Hague, 1915. Lecturer on Education and Peace questions. 120 slave-holding families of the South. If on some fine morning in the palmy days of slavery anyone had told the father of this woman that on a certain [fine] summer day less than [sixty] forty years from that date a man then held in bondage w'd be taking a tour through Europe with his family and w'd be politely requested by his daughter to deliver a package to his granddaughter in Heidelberg, he would either have poked fun at the man who c'd think of such a wild preposterous story or he w'd have suggested putting him into an insane asylum. Thru some of the most beautiful sections of Switzerland and Italy we passed, going up the Rigi, of course, not failing to remain in Paris and London several weeks. In talking with my father's widow recently I was surprised to see how distinctly she recalled certain [of] famous paintings in the Louvre as well as various points of interest in both the capital of England and France. On the steamer which brought us home there was a group of jolly people who contributed a great deal both to my own pleasure and to that of many other passengers. On several occasions a hale-fellow well-met individual whom everybody in this set called by his first name opened a case of the finest champagne and bid his buddies drink without money and without price - When the concert GREAT BRITAIN (Continued) GLADYS RINDER. Organizer and active worker, European Reconstruction. DR. ETHEL WILLIAMS. Degrees of M. D. (London) and D. Ph. (Cantab.) Took leading part in Women's Suffrage movement. One of original members of the Women's International League. One of delegates who was refused passport to The Hague in 1915. Attended Congresses in Zurich in 1919 and in Vienna in 1921. HOLLAND DR. ALETTA H. JACOBS. First woman doctor in the Netherlands. Studied at the University of Groningen after having obtained the right to study medicine at the State Universities of the Netherlands from the Thorbecke Cabinet. 1879- Began practice as physician for women and children. 1882- Opened clinic for poor women to advise them in matters of birth control. First clinic for that purpose in the world. 1883- Petitioned Government to be enlisted as a voter and was refused. In 1911, she gave up medicine practice and went with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt for a trip around the world to study the position of women in different countries. In 1915, went with Miss Jane Addams to different belligerent governments to present the Resolutions of that Congress and to ask the opinion of those Governments about a mediation for peace from the neutral governments. Went for that same purpose to the United States to see President Wilson COR RAMONDT-HIRSCHMANN President, Dutch Section of the Women's International League. Financial Secretary. Active worker in social movements for many years. Former president, Hague Committee for the Education of Mothers and Girls of the Labour Claws. Hon. Corresponding Secretary, National Council of Women. Helped Dr. Jacobs in organizing Hague Congress in 1915. Organized International Conference for a New Peace in December, 1921, at the Hague. Attended all Congresses of the Women's International League. Interested in Youth Movement. Member of Committee for the Reconstruction of Europe and for a World League of Cities. HUNGARY EUGENIE MISKOLCZY MELLER Editor of the Nok Lapja, official organ of Feministak Egyesulete for working women. One of the most ardent fighters for woman suffrage, and a peace worker since 1914. Lectured all over Hungary. Was the delegate of Feministak Egyesulete at Congresses in London, 1909, in Budapest, 1913, in Geneva, 1920, and consultative member in Dresden at the Executive meeting in 1923. ROSIKA SCHWIMMER. Leader of the movement for woman suffrage in Hungary. Among the first pioneers of women's work for Peace. Helped in foundation of the Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904 and in that of the Women's International League in 1915. Known in Hungary as a famous speaker and writer and organizer. 121 was being arranged I told several who were making the program that my stepmother played the piano exceedingly well and she was invited to accompany a well know singer as the little printed program, now yellow with age shows. It may be my duty to chronicle a [little] new love affair which occurred on board ship as we were ploughing thru the ocean on our way home. A man became greatly infatuated with me and it was difficult to prevent him from showing me marked attention whenever he was in my company - he was a matter of fact, level headed sort of man deeply engrossed in business and not at all the type which we would suspect of losing his head about any girl particularly a colored girl. Previous to that experience ever the only men who had been especially interested in me had been quite young - near my own age - it was always comparatively easy to convince them that their case was not so serious as they thought it was. But with this mature business man the proposition was entirely different - Before leaving the [*Scott says I lost my voice over student who fell in love with me--*] GERMANY DR. ANITA AUGSBURG. Most prominent pioneer for political rights of German women. She was a teacher, an actress, cultivated a big farm of her own, and at last became a lawyer - the first woman lawyer in Germany. An eager pacifist. The Revolution gave her an active part in politics. Stood as a candidate for the National Assembly without belonging to any political party, but simply because of her great popularity among Bavarian peasants and workers. Editor, "Women in the State", the only pacifist magazine in Germany. GERTRUD BAER. Secretary and organizer of the German Section of the W.I.L. During the revolution in Bavaria, she held the first position as a woman Under-State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Welfare. Since the Armistice, she is devoting all her time to political and international work, especially interested in forming a link between women and young people of all countries. LIDA GUSTAVA HEYMANN. Vice President of the W.I.L. Peace worker, writer, speaker, and organizer. She is the motor power of the radical political women's movement in Germany since its existence. Enthusiastic and persistent advocate for Women's Suffrage. She foresaw all the cruelty and consequences of the war; stood through all the experiences of being expelled, watched, and censured. Hers was the idea of voluntary Reconstruction of German women and Youth in the devastated areas of North France. FRAU AUGUSTE KIRCHHOFF Member Executive Committe of the W.I.L. Worker for protection of unmarried mothers and illegitimate children. GREAT BRITAIN. LADY CLAIRE ANNESLEY Lady Claire Annesley is the daughter of Priscilla, Countess of Annesley of an old Tory family. Lady Claire Annesley is a prominent member of the British Labor Party and is commissioner of the Women's International League in the Ruhr. DOROTHY EVANS. Secretary of the British Section of the Women's International League. Gymnastic teacher and lecturer in hygiene, anatomy and psychology. Militant suffragist, 1909-1919. Organizer for W.S.P.U. Imprisoned nine times in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Organizer land Nationalization Society 1919. EVA MACNAGHTEN. Member Executive Committee British Section, W.I.L. Great worker for suffrage. 122 He had insisted upon coming to see me at my mother's residence in New York. He wanted to talk to me about something very important he said. The second evening after we landed in New York he came to tell me this very important message. Without attempting to go into details about this call I can here and now truthfully record that I have seldom had greater difficulty in refuting arguments presented by my opponent and in persuading him to listen respectfully to mine than I did on that memorable occasion - when I told him that I had definitely made up my mind never to marry a white man he ridiculed all the statements I had previously made about deserving absolute equality in every respect. People of different races had a perfect right to marry each other he stoutly maintained if they loved each other. I told him I didn't love him. He assured me that any woman could learn to love a man who loved her and provided well for her. If I married a white man in the U.S I would be perfectly wretched, I explained, CANADA AGNES MACPHAIL First woman member of parliament for the Dominion of Canada. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA MILENA ILLOVA Member of the Social Democratic Party of Czecho-Slovakia and a sociologist. MARIA AULL Secretary of the Czecho-Slovakian Section of the Women's International League. Descended from the ancient Dutch nobility on her mother's side, and her father was Privy Counselor of the Austrian Emperor. While at the Horticultural School for women in Vienna she met Yella Hertzka, who interested her in the Women's International League. In 1922, she worked with Frau A. M. Wiechowski and other like-minded women to found a Section of the W. I. L. which has now more than three hundred members. FRANCE GABRIELLE DUCHENE. Founder and President of the French Section of the W. I. L. For many years worker against the sweat shop system and for equal salaries for women. In 1918, with co-workers, founded French Committee for aid for poor children. With Andree Jouve she started the movement "Cahiers de la Paix" for a New International Order. ANDREE JOUVE. Secretary French Section of the W. I. L. Teacher in State College for young girls. In Switzerland in 1915, with her husband, P. J. Jouve, one of the group of faithful friends of Romain Rolland, made protest against war. She made a special study of the principles of the new education in relation to pacifism and internationalism. Took part in the preliminary conference at Berne and at the Zurich Congress of the W. I. L. as a delegate from the French Section MARCELLE CAPY. Writer, journalist, lecturer. As a young woman making a lecture tour, she saw the misery of the people and then devoted herself to bettering conditions for the working women. Journalist - "La Bataille Syndicate" - a popular daily paper. Published reports on working women. Lived among them as one of them. When the war came, she joined the group of young intellectuals with Romain Rolland. Published articles in the papers showing the cruel absurdity of violence. In 1918, with Pierre Brizon, founded a paper "La Vogue", which has been fighting for five years against war and violence. 123 because I would be shunned [both] by colored and white people alike. He had thought that all out, he declared, and had already decided to take me to Mexico. We cd live in Mexico and be perfectly happy there he was sure . But it was never the slightest temptation for me to marry a man of the dominant race - At least three times in my life I might easily have done so - but I considered it seriously neither time. From my point of view there is very little happiness for a colored woman who marries a white man or for a white woman who becomes the wife of a colored man in the U. S. on account of the acute race prejudice which exists all over the country - In some sections it is more intense than in others but people who intermarry in this great Amer Republic are victims of it no matter where they may live - Soon after I reached New York I 124 went to Washington to see about my position in the High School - After I had obtained a leave of absence for one year only to study abroad and then this leave had been extended another year - But I had failed to notify [Supt.] Mr. G.F.T Cook the superintendent of colored schools that I intended to return and resume my work in the Fall- I received a letter from Mr. Robert Heberton Terrell as soon as he learned that I [had returned] was in the U.S urging me to come to Washington immediately and apprise Mr. Cook of my intentions. My work that year consisted mainly in teaching Latin and German. The senior class [in German] presented a play in German which was very creditable to both teacher and pupil- Mr. Hugh Brown who was then a teacher in the High School and who had studied abroad paid the pupils who took part a glowing compliment - Mr. Terrell and I became 125 engaged during that year. He was at the head of the Latin Department and I was his assistant. In explaining our decision to link together our destiny I need to say that I enjoyed assisting him so much in the Latin Department of the High School that I made up my mind I would continue to assist him for the rest of my natural life - The pupils showed their interest in their teachers in various ways - Sometimes they would write our names together on the black board. Then somebody would open my door suddenly poke his head in and ask innocently "Miss Church, do you know where Mr. Terrell is?" Naturally they indulged in puns on my name - 'Mr. Terrell used to go to dances' they would comment, 'Now he goes to Church. I remained in New York with my mother that summer [before I married] getting my trousseau ready; then went to my father's home in Memphis where I was married Oct 28, 1891 - My father insisted on having a wedding feast and for a long time after the guests talked [a long time] about the delicious viands which were so sumptuously served. The following [account] clipping from the Memphis Commercial Appeal gives a fairly good account of the wedding - Mr. Terrell and I left Memphis a few hours after the wedding and went Dear Lady Mollie: Rec'd your note. I will take the Club but would rather wait until after Lent, because so few will be out. Please, how shall I know who is to be present? Yours Ever Daditha 126 to New York to visit my mother a day or so before going to Boston where we spent a delightful honeymoon. At Auburndale a suburb of Boston Mr. and Mrs Joseph Lee had a fine hotel at which President and Mrs. Harrison had stopped a short time before and these good friends invited us to spend our honeymoon with them - The presents we received came from our friends all over the U.S and were numerous as well as beautiful. In Washington where we started house keeping in two rooms with a family living on Corcoran St. between 14- 15 Mr. Terrell was employed in the Treasury Department-He was [*Begin below*] I was desperately ill and my life was despaired of [*Begin here*] the year after my marriage - My. recovery was nothing short of a miracle and my case was recorded in medical history-In five years we lost three babies one after another which was a great blow both to Mr. Terrell and myself. EDUCATION COMMITTEE That all National Councils by urged to demand in their own countries the scientific study and investigation of conditions and practice in the whole field of domestic science and of home-making in all branches which concern the housewife and the mother, and that the result of such investigations be made available for the use of every home. And be it further resolved, that research and teaching in this field taken in the widest sence should be added to the already existing departments of the universities. On demande que tous Conseils Nationaux recommandent dans leurs pays respectifs que toutes les branches de l'economie domestique - dans toutes les conditions et toutes ses consequences - soient etudiees d'une facon scientifique; que les resultats de ces etudes soient mis au service de la famille et du travail menager et qu'en outre cette etude constitue une des branches a mettre au programme del"une de nos facultes. Resolution, dass beschlossen werder moge, die nationalen Frauenbunde anzuregen, in ihrem Lande einzutreten, dass das Gebiet der Hauswirtschaft (mit allen den Zweigen, die die Hausfrau und Mutter betreffen) in seinen Bedingungen und Auswirkungen issen schaftlich erforscht und die Ergebnisse dieser Forschung der Hauswirkschaft nutzbar gemacht werden moge; dass die horschende und lehrende Bahandlung hauswirtschaftlicher Fragen einer der schol vorhandenen Fakultaten der Rochschulen als Wahlfach eingegliedert werden moge. 127 The maternal instinct was always abnormally developed in me [and] [*Over*] When therefore my third baby died two days after birth I literally sank down to the very depths of despair. I could not read understandingly for I could not fix my mind on what I saw in print. When I reached the bottom of a page in a book I knew no more about its contents than did someone who had never seen it - I was tormented by the thought that the baby's life might [had] have been saved - [There were certain circumstances connected with the methods used] I could not help feeling that certain methods used in caring for the little thing had caused its untimely end. Some of my friends could not understand how a woman could grieve so deeply as I did over the death of a baby who had lived only a few days. But I sometimes think that a woman suffers as much when she loses a baby at birth as does a mother who loses a baby who has lived longer. There is the bitter disappointment of never having enjoyed the infant which has lain under the mother's heart so long and upon which she has built such fond hopes-Acting upon the physician's advice Mr. Terrell urged me to visit my V. Mrs. Sara Vincent. 1631-6th Avenue Mrs. Clara van Valkenburg, 1728-7th Avenue Mrs. Mary E. Vanhook 93 Front Street, Mrs. Sara Vanderpool 2161-6th Avenue W. Miss Fannie Williams, 492-2nd Avenue Upper Troy Miss Ethel Winnie, 1631-6th Avenue Mrs. Christine Williams 591-2nd Avenue, Upper Troy Mrs. Latitia Walker, 1626-6th Ave. Mrs. Eliza Witbeck, Watervliet. Mrs. Eva Witbeck 1626-6th Avenue. Mrs. Emma Warnamaker, 172 River Street. Mrs. Ethel Watson 3 Union Street, Miss Grace Watson 6th Avenue, Upper Troy [*Begin new page*] 127 As far back as I can remember I have been very fond of children. I have never seen a baby no matter what was its color, class or condition, no matter whether it was homely or beautiful, no matter whether it was clad in rags or wore dainty sheer muslin, that I did not think dear and cunning. [*Over*] [* on page 127 Begin O When my third &c*] 128 dear, sunny Mother in New York - She would not allow me to talk about the baby's death and scouted the idea that its life might have been saved - My mother had the cheeriest disposition imaginable. Her hearty laugh was infectious - Nobody could remain [with] in her presence long without being heartened and enlivened no matter how wretched and unhappy he or she had previously been. I am sure that this short visit to my mother did much for me physically, spiritually and mentally. Many a [woman] human being has lost his reason because he was allowed to brood over his trouble indefinitely, when even a slight change of scene and companionship might have saved it - Shortly before the third baby was born and lost I had received a great honor. Congress had empowered the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint three women to serve on the Board of Education. Since colored people at that time comprised one third of the population of the District of Columbia, they felt that a colored woman sh'd be appointed - But it was currently rumored that even if white men c'd -2- K. Mrs. Jane A. Kemp 149 Ferry Street. Mrs. Maria Kemp 2nd Avenue, Upper Troy Mrs. Laura King. 26-2nd Street. Waterford. Mrs. Matilda Kelley 1-13th Street, Upper Troy Mrs. Nancy King. 1642 -6th Avenue. L. Mrs. Mary La Tuer, 35-8th Street, Mrs. Marie Lawyer, 778-14th Street, Watervliet. Mrs. Sylvia Lindsay, 59 Union Street. M. Mrs. Marshall 1631-6th Avenue Mrs. Carrie Morrison, 1728-7th Avenue Mrs. Mary Mead, 831-14th Steet, Watervliet. Mrs. Henrietta Mosely, 57 Union Street. Miss Marie McClelland, 2190-6th Avenue Miss Anna Morgan. 1-13th Street. Phoebe N. Moore, 2120-6th Avenue. O. Mrs. Mary Oliver, 471-3rd Avenue, Upper Troy P. Mrs. Alice Price, 147 FerryStreet Miss Jane Powell Mrs. Ella Purnell, 151 Ferry Street. Mrs. Margaret Palmer, 150 Ninth Street. Mrs. Alzada Purdun 16 Franklin Street, Mrs.Lottie Parker 57 Union Street. Mrs. Della Pareker 49 Franklin Street. R. Mrs. Minnie Richardson, 1540-5th Avenue Upper Troy Mrs. Anna Rollins, 451-4th Avenue Upper Troy Mrs. Helen Rivers, 66 Washington Street. S. Mrs. Matha Smith, 415-2nd Avenue, Upper Troy Mrs. Nancy St. Clair 8 Division Street. Mrs.Frances Scott, 71-2nd Street. Mrs.Susan Smalley, 1508-7th Avenue. Mrs. Dora Selles 1508-7th Avenue. Mrs. Pearly Sullivan, 159-9th Street. T. Mrs. Anna Taylor, 127 River Street. Mrs. Rubie Taylor, 492-2nd Avenue Upper Troy. Mrs.Mary Taylor. 2850-5th Avenue Mrs.Louise Taylor, 2864-5th Avenue Mrs.Eliza Thomason 808-14th St.Watervliet. Mrs.Emelia Thomas, The Caldwell, Troy Mrs.Florence Thomas. 185-10th Street. Mrs. Ellouise Tolbert 492-2nd Avenue Upper Troy Mrs. Etta Thomas, 127 Congress Street. Miss Susie Thompson 1529-5th Avenue Miss Sara Thompson. 1529-5th Avenue Miss Anna Thompson 1529-5th Avenue. [*Over*] 159 said, "I am sure you have all been thrilled at what you have just heard." A few years after that I received another invitation from the N A W S A to deliver another address at its Biennial which was held in the Universalist church in Washington in The [invitation] letter stated that the first time I was invited to [speak] appear before the organization had been requested to speak as a colored woman about the progress of colored women. But that at the approaching Biennial the Committee wished me to * [*also [at] the first time I spoke they had allotted me only 20 min but they wanted me to have 30 minutes for the suffrage*] speak as a woman on the Justice of Woman Suffrage address. * [*See above*] Some of the members of the organization declared that in assigning me that [important] subject they had asked me to make the Key speech of the entire session. I worked on that speech with all my might and main [heart, soul and strength.] I spoke without a manuscript and poured my very soul into what I said- The enthusiastic manner in which the audience greeted my address more than repaid me for the time and pains I had expended upon it. In commenting upon it the Boston Transcript- said- A day or two [Shortly] after delivering that address Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker sent me the copy of a bust of her sister, Harriet met was Isabella Beecher Hooker on the steamer when I first went abroad. Mrs. Singleton Mrs. H. Jones Mrs. Freeman 629 Communipaw Ave 456 York St 73 Kearney Ave Mrs. Wright Mrs. Jones Mrs. Branham 25 Oak St 105 Oak St 43 Oak St Mrs. Jones Mrs. Miller Mrs. S. Baker 45 Oak St 105 Ege Ave 103 Jackson Ave. Mrs. Blythe Mrs. Henderson Mrs. J. A. Cash 105 Jackson Ave 643 Communipaw Ave 15 Sackell St Mrs. Fannie Snapp Mrs. Blanche Ford Mrs. E. C. Brown 109 Kearney Ave 129 Union St. 109 Atlantic Ave. Mrs. Mary Myrick Mrs. Emma Jones Mrs. Blanche Ramsay 149 Kearney Ave 45 Oak St 37 Oak St. Mrs. Cordelia Green Mrs. Henrietta Smith Mrs. Smith 94 Kearney Ave 44 Kearney Ave 961 Communipaw Ave Mrs. Frazier Mrs. Shaw Mrs. Brown 11 Corbin Ave 11 Corbin Ave 215 Mindan Ave Mrs. Coppage Mrs. Hodge Mrs. Mitter 65 Jewett Ave 317 Pacific Ave 1DeKalbar Ave. Mrs. J. Miller Mrs. Lomax Mrs. Madison 1 DeKalbar Ave 34 Ege Ave. 345 Holliday St. Mrs. Ferguson Mrs. Williams Mrs. Russell 331 Montgomery St. 535 Montgomery St. 221 Sip Ave. Mrs. Barkus Mrs. E. DeGruder Mrs. Lightfoot 152 Union St 475 Mammoth St. 50 Orient Ave. Mrs. Kelso Mrs. Ellison Mrs. Gibson 35 Orient Ave 190 Union St. 188 Union St. Mrs. Long Mrs. Croker Mrs. James 28 Kearney Ave 15 Kearney Ave. 26 Kearney Ave. Mrs. Cooper Mrs. Jackson Mrs. Picker 80 Kearney Ave 80 Kearney Ave 410 Newark St Hoboken Mrs. Carr Mrs. Patrice Mrs. L. Clarke 410 Newark St. 410 Newark St. 79 Jefferson St. Hoboken Hoboken Hoboken Mrs. G. Nelson Mrs. Gibson Mrs. Blanch Jordan 79 Jefferson St. Hoboken 64 Jefferson St 64 Jefferson St Hoboken Hoboken Mrs. Cooper Mrs. Anna Harrison Mrs. Milk 108 Jefferson St. 118 Jefferson St. 462 First St. Hoboken Hoboken Hoboken 160 Beecher Stowe which had been carved by Anne Whitney of Boston and which had been exhibited in the Woman's Building at the Worlds Fair held in Chicago in 1893- Mrs Hooker said she presented me the bust as a token of gratitude for the masterful and eloquent argument I had made in favor of woman Suffrage- Wed-June 9-1926 1:25-PM Dancy,Mrs.Estella 115 Bleeker St., Newark, NJ Bly,Mrs.Laura 168 Barclay St , " Good,Miss Mary, 115 Rose St., " Conly,Mrs.Ellen, 18 Scott St., " Cornic,Mrs.Matilda 10 Scotte St., " Thomas,Mrs.Ella, 200 Barclay St., " Galloway,Mrs.M. 198 Barclay St., " Pennington,Mrs.J. 198 Barclay St., " Freeman,Mrs.Ellen, 90 Barclay St., " Brown,Mrs.Josephine, 461 Prince St., " Spearman,Mrs.Eliz. 93 Union St., " Poorhees,Mrs.Ada 86 Lichenor St., " Petty,Mrs.Hattie. 134 Hoyt St., " Birdsong,Mrs.Martha 45 Hoyt St., " Edward,Mrs.M. 21 Scotte St., " Smith,Mrs.Daisy, 79 Somerset St., " Salters,Mrs.Laura, 79 Somerset St., " Ross,Mrs.Nellie, 77 Somerset St., " Evans,Mrs.Eliz. 37 Somerset St., " Reeves,Mrs.Bella, 14 Boston St., " Mitchen,Mrs.Annie, 75 Boston St., " Willis,Mrs.Ada, 117 Prospect St., " Rainy,Mrs.Eliza. 589 North 5th St., " Seidler,Mrs.Mary, 589 N.5th St., " Rainy,Miss Lucy, 589 N.5th St., " Thomas,Mrs.Emma J., 587 N.5th St., " Wiggins,Mrs.Mary A. 587 N.5th St., " Allan,Mrs.Nancy, 690 N.5th St., " Francis,Mrs.Nellie, 80 Wickliff, " Broom,Mrs.Mary, 20 W.Kinney Place " Huff,Miss Eliza. 100 Oliver St., " Madenalk,Miss Alice 100 Oliver St., " Huff,Mrs.Isabella, 100 Oliver St., " Lowery,Mrs.Mary E. 100 Oliver St., " Jackson,Mrs.Helen 12 Mulberry Place, " Foler,Mrs.Edith, 12 Mulberry Place, " off of him when she gets thru with him! I am glad I believed in this great cause for it was the means of bringing me into direct personal contact with some of the bravest and finest women this country has ever produced. I was well acquainted with Mrs. May Wright Sewall at one time President of the National Council of Women- with her Anna Howard Shaw- Alice Stone Blackwell and her father who was the husband of Lucy Stowe one of the earliest graduates of Oberlin College- I became acquainted with Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch the daughter of Elizabeth Cody Stanton. She has extended me numerous social courtesies in this country and once when we met abroad- Mrs. Blatch has absolutely no prejudice against an individual on account of his color and his race- In fact it is rare to find any of the original suffragists or members of their immediate families who are affected with color phobia- At the Biennial Session of the NAWS [?] which in 1898 was held in what was then called the Columbia Theatre but which is now known as the- now I was invited to deliver an address on The Progress of Colored Women and was allotted twenty minutes The audience received my message enthusiastically and when Mrs. Anthony who presided arose to announce the next speaker she Why I delivered my address in German instead of English. Young Austrian jew broke into my room saw my German manuscript on the table corrected it for me. JERSEY CITY N.J Mrs Robinson Mrs. Hill 113 Va. Ave 109 Va. Ave Mrs. Dobson Mrs. Anderson 107 Va. Ave. 101 Va. Ave Mrs. Cole Mrs. Jackson 23 Jewett Ave 23 Jewett Ave 11 Mrs Tabbs Mrs Carpenter Mrs Bel 118 Storms Ave 114 Storms Ave 104 Jordan Ave Mrs Haggard Mrs Vaughn Miss G. Vaughn 681 Communipaw Ave 97 Atlantic St 97 Atlantic St Mrs Turner Mrs Tate Mrs. W. Gunner 99 Atlantic St 99 Atlantic St 65 Belmont St Mrs G. Gunner Mrs B. Gunner Mrs Fredericks 65 Belmont St 65 Belmont St 503 Bergen Ave Mrs Seaverns Mrs R. Dorsey Mrs Rathray 503 Bergen Ave 503 Bergen Ave 332 Bergen Ave Mrs. Johnson Mrs Goodman Mrs. Nealley 90 Ege Ave 103 Ege Ave 15 Orient Ave Mrs Harris Mrs Waters Mrs Cheatham 15 Orient Ave 103 Ege Ave 72 Ege Ave Mrs Lewis Mrs. Hauser Mrs Robinson 93 Kearney Ave 93 Kearney Ave 121 Va. Ave Mrs Payton Mrs. Johnson Mrs Roberts 121 Va. Ave 119 Va. Ave. 119 Va. Ave. Mrs. Banks Mrs. Smith Mrs. C.F. Thomas 117 Va. Ave. 117 Va. Ave 115 Va. Ave. Mrs. Nolan Mrs. Hamton Mrs. Brown 96 Kearney Ave. 113 Va. Ave 113 Va. Ave. Mrs. Watson Mrs. Talbot Mrs. Daniels 80 Kearney Ave 80 Kearney Ave 56 Siedley St. Mrs. Epps Mrs. Bundy Mrs. Roberts 626 Communipaw Ave 632 Commuinpaw Ave 111 Atlantic St. Mrs. Woods Mrs. Smith Mrs. Hayborn 111 Atlantic Ave 104 Harrison Ave 104 Harrison Ave. Mrs. Waddell Mrs. Beany Mrs. Sneed 45 Tuers Ave 21 Atlantic Ave 29 Corbin Ave. Mrs. Christian Mrs. Waters Mrs. Johnson 73 Kearney Ave 105 Ege Av 76 Ege Ave. 145 efforts I exerted to do away with the examination and allow everybody who graduated from the H School enter the Normal School is he wished 9Su P 148 1/2 Monday 2:10 June 7 '26 Many incidents occurred to prove that the teachers at the white school disregarded my race entirely when they wished me to serve them or the schools in any way- individuals they came to my home to prefer requests of various kinds and to ask me to vote for any measure which they wanted passed- The nearest approach to what might be termed friction occurred when I tried to assist one of the finest instructors in the [?] to have a victrola in her school- She was the principal of one of the white High Schools and wanted to use the victrola to instruct her pupils in a variety of ways She wanted them to hear the first speakers of the country, the great singers whom the average pupil could not afford to hear and to receive information of various kinds [?] what was then an entirely new medium of rendering their great service to her pupils- But the Board of Education voted against granting percussion to the progressive High School principal Bertha E. Garris 83 Avon Street Hartford, Conn A. Crowder 153 Avon Street " Mrs. Josephine Smith 330 Windsor Street " Mrs. Ida Evans 330 Windsor St " Mrs. Alberta Morrow 330 Windsor Street " Miss Lula Jackson 100 Portland St " Catherine Chaney 347 North Port St " Mrs. Mary Hawkins 81 Suffield St " Christinetta Timmons 81 Suffield St " Mrs. Fannie Everett 95 Russell St " Mrs. Willie M. Singleterry 94 Russell St " Mrs. W. Ruby Wilkerson 104 Avon Street " Mrs. Anna Clara Smith 93 Suffield Street " Mollie Hicks 15 Warren Strret " Minnie Clover 433 Windsor " Mrs. Daisy Pons 95 Suffield Street " Mrs. Alrina Mack 95 Suffield " Mrs. Carrie Black 99 Suffield " Gussie L. Dorden 79 Wooster Street " Francis Troutman 87 Suffield St " Joseph Hofwood 85 Suffield St. " Beatrice Core 75 Russell St " Vivian Lee 46 1/2 Russell St " Anna Crapps 46 1/2 Russell St " Mrs. Pearl Watkins 75 Russell St " Mrs. Josephine Hayes 72 Russell St " Ella Washington 72 Bellevue St " Mrs. Ella Woorls 46 Russell St " Mrs. Sylvia Meyers 150 Village St " Miss Hattie May 4 March Court " Mrs. Minnie Weston 130 Avon St " [*My views on passing for W. D.C.s ask you to get a berth for them but say L Cs are passing where they get them for themselves.*] 150 made and immediately passed with but one dissenting vote - After I had served on the Board of Education nearly six years I resigned because [the members] it was decided to make my husband principal of the High School and I did not want to be a member of the Board which voted to elevate him to this position. I received many beautiful letters from teachers in both the colored and white schools expressing regret that in the future they wd be deprived of the valuable service I had rendered and thanking me for the efforts I had made in their behalf. Through out my service as a member of the Board I gave my time and my strength unstintingly without money and without price - A few years after I resigned Congress decided to abolish the Board of Education as it then existed, take the power of appointing members out of the hands of the District Commissioners and place it in the hands of the Judge of the District Supreme Court - When this power was given to them they declared they wd appoint nobody on the new Board who had ever served before. My mother and I were sitting in the yard stringing snap beans one hot summer afternoon when a reporter from the Wash Even Star appeared before us [*Proposed Arrival Day March Meeting*] Mrs. Carrie Thomas, 137 MatherSt., Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Rosalee Robinson, 133 Mather St., " " Mrs. Fannie Carter, 137 Mather St., " " Mrs. Dancy Canns, 137 Winter St., " " Mrs. Harriet Johnson, 137 Winter St., " " Mrs. Clara Byrd Holden, 137 Winter St., " " Mrs. Sanan Upshur, 85 Green St., " " Miss Celester V. Stewart, 23 Huntley Place, " " Mrs. Phoebe Stewart, 23 Huntley Place, " " Mrs. Bertha Wells, 20 Huntley Place, " " Mrs. Laura Stewart, 23 Huntley Place, " " Mrs. Laura B. Wells, 14 Huntley Ave., " " Mrs. Ruby W. Ratcliffe, 16 Brooks St., " " Mrs. Mary L. Rose, 290 Garden St., " " Mrs. E. S. Bowman, 85 Green St., " " Mrs. Mattie Gaskins, 98 Portlant St., " " Mrs. B.L. Hill, 98 Wooster St., " " E. H. Carter, 70 Wooster St., " " Georgia Griffen, 40 Chestnut St., " " Mrs. A. L. Arms, 201 Capen St., " " Mrs. Nellie Singleton, 15 Adalaide St., " " Mrs. Pearl R. Shaw, 55 Bellevue St., " " S.R. Diggs, 13 Caton St., " " M.A. Johnson, 5 Avon St., " " R.A. Lawson, 111 Adelaide, " " Joseph Robinson, Capen St., " " Jessie Jones, 312 Capen St., " " Rosa Fisher, 44 Pliney St., " " Mary Taylor 54 Pliney St., " " Odell Connell 54 Pliney St., " " 151 151 and told us that the Judges of the District Supreme Court had appointed me a member of the New Board of Education which they had just named. And I was the only person who had served on a previous Board whom the Judges appointed on the first one they formed. I felt that in this way the District of Columbia placed its seal of approval upon the efforts I had exerted to my duty to the schools during my first term. Many people felt that I had great influence as a member of the Board of Education and they explained it to their own satisfaction by saying I was a politician. By that they meant that I accomplished what I did by being mysterious, foxy, sly and working in the dark. I used to feel that they imagined I ran a sort of underground railway so to speak. This picture they made of me [as a politician] amused me very much indeed. Nothing c'd have been further from the facts. The truth is that I did nothing in secret or on the sly. For instance a teacher for whose character and for whose scholarship I had the highest respect came to my home to request me to make him head of the English Department. I told him that I had already pledged myself to vote for another but I reminded him that I NEWARK N. J. Mrs Edith Major 495 Washington St. Mrs Catherine Colston 450 N J R R. Ave Mrs J M. Williams 164 Penn Ave Miss Waymon Richardson 55 William St Mrs Leroy C Powell 147 Academy St Miss Mary Bergen 38 Liberty St Miss J. A Wilson 20 Rutgers St Miss Carrie M Ruffin 212 Bank St Mrs. Grace Boone 55 Fair View Ave Mrs Marguerite White 77 Pennington St Miss Ethel Jones 265 Sherman Ave Mrs L. Mendes 28 Seabury St. Miss Sarah Thomas 130 Tichemor Lane Miss J. Hamilton 25 Nesbitt St Mrs Maggie Snell 37 Tichemoor St Mrs. Lu Moorman 180 Charlton St Mrs. Haze Davis 99 Lincoln Park Miss Lottie Drummond 109 Waverly Ave Miss Cordelia Murfee 42 Woodside Pl. Miss Lilla W Pressley 164 Warren St Miss Fred Hill 55 William St Mrs R. H. Smith 133 Bank St Miss Alice Grant 74 1/2 Stone St Miss Mabel Wilson 35 Kent St Miss Estelle Baker 169 Livingston St Mrs Pearlie Patterson 326 Halsey St Micc Chester H Holmes 10 Dey St Miss Irene White 378 Mulberry St Miss Florence Riley 129 Johnson Ave Miss Paul Threadgill 27 Tichemoor Lane Mrs. Lillie Boston 618 N. 7th St. Mrs. Martha Scales 37 Tichemoor St Mrs Mary Gilmore 21 Nutman St Mrs Robt. Keiser 47 Broad St Mrs R Williams 994 Broad St Miss DorothyEaton 39 Ogden St Orange N J. Miss LeslieDaniel 255 Belmont Ave Miss Rosa Phillips 98 Oliver St Mrs MattieFrancis 133 Bank St Miss GertrudeGaskin 105 Lackawanna Ave. Miss Mae VanDoren 282 Mt.Pleasant Ave Miss Dorothy Stout 529 Bloomfield Ave Mrs Willie Reynolds 77 Pennington St Mrs M. Reeson 69 Prince St Mrs Arthur Wright 81 Boyden St Miss Julia Plater 10 Scott St. Miss H. Waller 95 Emmett St. Mrs Mary Watkins 387 Plane St. Mrs. M.E.Jethrod Vine St. Mrs. Mary Adams 21 Nutman St Miss Sarah Thomas 130 Tichemoor St 152 had only one vote on the Board and told him if he could secure the number of votes necessary to elect him I wd do nothing to oppose him. But my candidate on that occasion won. Naturally I did not always win. But the instances in which my candidates or the measures advocates failed were comparatively few. During my first term of office each of the Trustees, as they were then called, had a special [section] Division whose affairs they each administered with the approval of the Board as a whole. At that time I had the 10th Division. In this Division it was my duty to promote the teachers,with the advice of the Supt. & supervising principal, appoint the special teachers, appoint the janitors and [settle] adjust complicated, mooted points of various kinds. On one occasion a teacher was to be promoted from the 4th to the 5th grade and the supervising principal had informed me that he wanted a certain teacher promoted because she deserved it. On his advice I instructed the supt to promote this teacher. But another teacher heard what was in the air and came post haste to inquire why I had made the recommendation and to prove that she herself deserved it. She showed to my entire satisfaction that both because of excellence PASSAIC N. J. Mrs Lillian Fells Mrs Seabrooks Mrs Cooke 181 Myrtle Ave 77 Tulip St 5 Garden St Mrs. Anna Scudder 89 Harrison St. HALEDON BOROUGH Mrs John Moppins Mrs Peter Moppins 1722 Mangle St. 1722 Mangle St. 153 [*Over*] excellence of record and length of service the promotion [was] rightfully belonged to her. I [had] was at my breakfast Monday morning when I received this information. He had already sent my recommendation to the Supt to promote a teacher who had been recommended by the Supervising principal but who I was convinced did not deserve it- [School] It was just a few minutes before 9- School was about to begin. I had no phone Few private individuals had phones then and there was not time for me to reach the Supt in person to instruct him to change the recommendation I has sent in. But it occurred to me that there was a phone at Freedmen's hospital which was about 4 blocks from our residence. So I grabbed my coat, ran nearly every step of the way to the hospital, rushed to the phone and reached the Supt just as he was sending a messenger to notify the teacher who did not deserve it that she been promoted to a higher grade- It is needless to state that the teacher whose excellence [of record] and longevity entitled her to the promotion received it- At that time it was [?] a violation Went to Chevy Chase with Phyllis for the Merry Go Round- PATERSON N.J. Mrs Ward Mrs. Bessie Giles Mrs. Mary DeVie 77 Warren St 305-16th Ave 305-15th e Mrs L. Kyles Mrs Amanda Flanigan Mrs Adams 30 West St 208-12th Ave 177 Graham Ave Mrs Straugh Mrs. Isben Goodman Mrs Elizabeth Dema[?]est 197 Graham Ave 22-12th Ave Mrs. Lottie Poe Mrs Norma Bogert Miss Sadonia Smith 179 Pearl St 179 Pearl St 408-14th Ave Mrs Mary Smith Mrs Addie Conover Mrs. Scott 408-14the Ave 305 Summe St 22 Lawrence St Mrs James Sargent Mrs. Frances Stewart 20 Lawrence St 311 Ellison St. 154 Over of the rules for a [?] teacher to marry and retain her position in the schools- Marriage automatically separated a woman teacher from the service. One day an acquaintance who had taught in a white school in an western city came to me to tell me that a certain teacher in my Division was married She presented the facts which convinced me she was telling the truth- I urged her not to make the matter public until I had had a chance to talk to the teacher- At first the teacher denied it vehemently- But when I convinced her that I had the facts in that I knew she had been married in Baltimore five months my possession she finally confessed- [The supervising principal may have had certain suspicions himself But I threw him off the track]- I told the teacher if she wd resign at the end of the month I wd not divulge her secret and thus no sensation wd be created in the public schools She took my advice and to throw the public off the scent she had a wedding at her home after she had resigned so that no one wd suspect that she had violated the rule by marrying and continuing to teach in the schools Tuesday-2:15-June 6 Over Reed,Mrs.Mary, 28 Mulberry Place, Newark, N.J. phillip,Mrs.Minnie, 9 Clayton St., " Vidito,Mrs. Martha, 9 Clayton St., " Scales,Mrs.Martha, 37 Lichenor Lane " Snell,Mrs.Maggie, 37 Lichenor Lane, " Griffins,Mrs.Mary, 44 Johnson St., " Fletcher, Mrs.Florence, 113 1/2 Somerset St., " Jones,Mrs.Sophie, 411 Washington St., " Moorman,Mrs.Lue, 180 Charlton St., " Taylor,Mrs. 92 1/2 Garside St., " Murphy,Mrs.Jos. 30 Lafayette St., " Chestnut,Mrs.Robt. 30 Lafayette St., " Taylor,Major, 263 Mulberry St., " Baskerville,Mrs.Wm. 263 Mulberry St., " Willis[?]ms, Mrs.Ed.H. 21 Boston St., " Laswon,Mrs.Orleida, 506 Washington St., " Dean,Mrs.Hazel, 326 Halsey St., " Clark,Mrs. A.M. 17 Orlean St., " Patterson,Mrs.Chas. 263 Mulberry St., " Cooper,Mrs.C.S. 321 High St., " Slater,Mrs.J.W., 78 Elin St., " Cole,Mrs. 95 Elin St., " Roberts,Mrs.Elizabeth, 65 High St., " McDonald,Mrs.Alice L. 104 Oliver St., " Clark,Mrs. Lettie V., 137 Academy St., " Pride,Mrs.Myrtle, 15 1/2 Lemon St., " Michel,Miss Willie, 141 Jackson Ave., Jersey City, N.J. Everett,Miss Rose, 28 Princeton St., E.Orange,N.J. Patillo,Mrs.Julia, 92 Will St., Orange ,N.J. Ford, Miss Augusta, 131 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair,N.J. Tolson, Miss Lucy, M. 12 Mt. Vernon St., Nutley,N.J. Williams,Miss Ruth, 112 Hill St., Orange,N.J. Simpson,Miss Cornelis, 25 Burnside St., Orange,N.J. Whitley,Miss Eleanore, 119 N.Clinton St., E.Orange,N.J. Mack,Mrs.Jeannie, 35 Oakwood Pl., Orange,N.J. Brown,Mrs.L.H. 203 S. Grove t. E.Orange,N.J. [*Started to write early- Loved it but cd not find time Wrote for many col newspapers- a few Magazines- Max Barber's paper. Began to speak- Went on the lecture Platform Dr. Nourse heard me at the 1st Cong. Church- Wrote to Charles Wagner- But home duties always on my mind- Pres of Nat Ass of Col Women 1896- Nashville, Chicago Convention- Buffalo, N.Y.*] 155 [*Over*] As I look back upon my record on the school Board I am happy in the belief that I did everything in my power to promote the welfare of the pupils and to raise the standards in every way- So long as I had charge of the 10th Division I visited the schools as often as I cd- I made a strenuous effort to become personally acquainted with the teachers in my Division so that I might know something about their temperament [and] their methods and their manners in the school room- Several deserving teachers our then appointments largely if not entirely to my efforts in their behalf- In these case hostile forces were working vigorously against them either because there was personal bitterness or because the enemy simply wanted the coveted position for one of his own friends- In such an emergency the individual who is being fought must have a friend at court to present his side of the case if he is to succeed. And I tried conscientiously to be the friend when I felt that by so doing I c'd thwart an attempt at injustice- I was always interested in women's clubs and after I came to Washington attended every public meeting conducted by women that I could. [The National American Woman Suffrage Association used to hold its meetings in Washington every two years and there were very few sessions] [Booklovers Club] First money I earned making a toilet set - Going to the Lake & Camping out during the summer - Nearly drowned once - 3 Mrs. Sara Vincent 1631-6th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Sara Vanderpool 2191- 6th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Christina Williams 591-2nd Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Eva Witbeck 1626-6th Ave Upper Troy N Y Miss Grace Watson 6th Ave Upper Troy N Y. Mrs Clara VanValkenburg 1728-7th ave Upper Troy N Y Miss Fannie Williams 492-2nd Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Latitia Walker 1626-6th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Emma Warnamaker 172 River St Upper Troy N Y Mrs Mary EVanHook 93 Front St Upper Troy N Y Miss Ethel Winnie 1631-8th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Eliza Witbeck Watervliet Mrs Ethel Watson 3 Union St Upper Troy N Y Over 156 which I did not attend - On one occasion the members of the Suffrage Association were registering their protest against an injustice _ I immediately arose and said as a colored woman I want to urge you to include the injustices of warious kinds of which colored people are the victims - "Are you a member of the Association? Miss Susan B Anthony who was presiding inquired - "No I am not" I replied, but I thought you might be willing to listen to a plea for justive even from an outsider ." Then Miss Anthony asked me to come forward, write out the solution which I wished incorporated with the others and hand it to the Committee - And thus began a friendship with Susan B Anthony which lasted for many delightful years - The first large meeting i attended was the one at which women from all over the world were present who were interested in suffrage - Notable among the women sitting on the platform at that meeting were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott two of the pioneers in the cause of Woman Suffrage - At the close of the early [Suffrage] meetings which I attended after reaching Washington the presiding officer asked all who believed in woman suffrage to arise - Altho the theatre was quite well filled at the time, very few arose _ In the early 1890s It required great courage for a woman to arise in an audience and publicly acknowledge that she believed in Invited to represent Fred Douglass at 50 anniversary of Seneca Falls meeting - Things burned up in Welschs 84-85 Mem 85-87 Wilberforce 87-88 Washington 88-90 Europe 90-91 Wash 91 Oct Married [*Mrs Bell Adams 43-22nd St Watervilet N Y Mrs. Abernaptny 68 Harrison Place Troy N Y Mrs. Julia Bain 1626 Sixth Ave Troy N Y Mrs Elsie Carr 451 4th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Lottie Cook 2191 6th Ave Troy N Y Mrs Lottie Creston 151 Ferry St Troy N Y Mrs. Louise Davis 818 River St Troy N Y Mrs Rose Epps 38 Eagle St Troy N Y Mrs Ellsworth 137 River St Troy N Y Mrs. F. D. Gillespie 127 River St Troy N Y Mrs Lillian Garner 702 Grand St Upper Troy N Y Miss Bessie Hill 1517 -5th Ave Upper Troy N Y Miss Grace Hegeman 592 -8th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs. Mary Ann Johnson 35-8th St Upper Troy N Y Mrs Emma Azier 1630 Sixth Ave Troy N Y Mrs Sara Bland 152 Ninth St Troy N Y Mrs Hannah Bell 1630 6th Ave Troy N Y Miss Alice Chew 149 Ferry St Troy N Y Miss Emily Chew 199 Ferry St Troy NY Mrs Julia Cuthbert 128 Congress St Troy N Y Mrs Clementine Davis 1506 7th Ave Troy N Y Mrs Clarissa Evans 1529 -5th Ave Troy N Y Mrs Delaney Frank 71 -2nd St Troy N Y Mrs Anna Griffin 52-2nd Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Elizabeth Givens 178 River St Upper Troy N Y Miss Bertha Hall 147 Ferry St Upper Troy N Y Miss Belle Hawkins 129 Ferry St Upper Troy N Y Mrs Sarah Joyce 618 River St Upper Troy N Y Miss Carrie Bryant 151 Ferry St Troy N Y Mrs Hattie Beal 99 Hutton St Troy N Y Mrs Lillian Carlile 129 Ferry St Troy N Y Miss Marie Chew [Mrs Lettie Cook] 149 Ferry St Troy N Y Miss Sara Chew 199 Ferry St Troy N Y Mrs Rose Dixon 2850 5th Ave Troy N Y Miss Emma Dale 1642 6th Ave Troy N Y Mrs May Epps 185 - 10th St Troy N Y Mrs Virginia Fuller 17-2nd St Troy N Y Mrs Malvina Gibson 591-2nd Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Gertrude Hill 71 -2nd St Upper Troy N Y Miss Mollie Hegeman 492-5th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Ida Jackson 492 -8th Ave Upper Troy N Y Mrs Henrietta Jones 35-8th St Upper Troy N Y*] [*Over*] 157 suffrage for her sex. But I mustered courage courage enough to do so nevertheless - I cannot remember the time when I did not believe believe in woman suffrage with all my heart. When I was only a Freshman in college I took the affirmative of a discussion entitled Resolved There Should Be a Sixteenth Amendment Granting Suffrage to Women. When I told Mr. Terrell that I had stood up in Albaughs Theatre and had publicly taken a stand for woman suffrage he laughingly replied that any young woman who did that put herself entirely outside the pale of matrimony. No girl who believes in Suffrage he laughingly declared will ever get a husband - Well, I replied, I won't marry a man who didn't believe a woman had a right to help administer the affiars of the government under which she lives". But Mr. Terrell always believed ardently in woman Suffrage. Nothing amused him more than to hear a self-sufficient, important young man argue against suffrage with a woman who had the points in favor of it at her tongue's end and could deliver her verbal blows with telling effect. "Just listen to that woman wipe the floor up with that narrow young coxcomb he wd chuckle. "There wont be a grease spot Mrs Josephine Jackson Mrs Jane A Kemp Mrs Maria Kemp 59 Union St 149 Ferry St 2nd Avenue Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Laura King Mrs Matilda Kelley Mrs Nancy King 26-2nd St 1-13th St 1642-6th Ave Waterford N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Mary LaTuer Mrs Marie Lawyer Mrs. SylviaLindsay 35-8th St 778-14th St 59 Union St Upper Troy N Y Watervliet N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Marshall Mrs Carrie Morrison Mrs Mary Mead 1631 -6th Ave 1728 -7th Ave 831 -14th St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Watervliet Mrs Henrietta Moseley Miss Marie McClelland Miss Anna Morgan 57 Union St 2190 -6th Ave 1-13th St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Miss Pheobe N Moore Mrs Mary Oliver Mrs Alice Price 2120 -6th Ave 471 Third Ave 147 Ferry St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Miss Jane Powell Mrs Ella Purnell Mrs MargaretPalmer 147 Ferry St 151 Ferry St 150 Ninth St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Alzaga Purdun Mrs Lottie Parker Mrs Delia Parker 16 Franklin St 57 Union St 49 Franklin St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Minne Richardson Mrs Anna Rolins Mrs Helen Rivers 1540-5th Ave 451-4th Ave 66 Washinton St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Matha Smith Mrs Nancy St. Clair Mrs Frances Scott 415-2nd Ave 8 Division St 71-2nd St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Susan Smalley Mrs Dora Selles Mrs Pearl Sullivan 1508-7th Ave 1508 -7th Ave 159-9th St Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Anna Taylor Mrs Rubie Taylor Mrs Mary Taylor 127 River St 492 -2nd Ave 2850-5th Ave Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Mrs Louise Taylor Mrs Eliza Thomason Mrs Emelia Thomas 2864-5th Ave 808-14th St The Caldwell Upper Troy N Y Watervliet Troy N Y Mrs Florence Thomas Mrs Eloise Tolbert Mrs Etta Thomas 185-10th St 492-2nd Ave 127 Congress St Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y. Miss Susie Thompson Miss Sara Thompson Miss Anna Thompson 1529-5th Ave 1529-5th Ave 1529-5th Ave Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y Upper Troy N Y [*2 articles written for General Exercise while in college. One on Dicken's American Notes and the other on the sacrifice made by Sydney Carton for his friend. It was greater I claimed than that made by J to save the world. Only 1 person wd thank Sydney while the whole world for generations wd thank Christ*] very handsome man advised my parents to send me to Oberlin Ohio- he told them [about the]there was a fine college in the town and suggested that it wd be advisable to have me go thru the public schools first & then enter college - I wish Mr Winter Woods were living to day so that I might express my gratitude to him for giving my parents this advice. The superintendent of the Oberlin public schools wanted to have me enter [the 8th gr] what was call the A Grammar, which [[When I came to spend my summer va] After remaining in Y.S. 4 profitable & pleasurable years I went home to Memphis to spend my summer vacation. [It was truly a glorious summer for me.]] I spent several summer vacations in Memphis while I was attending school at YS but, when I came home at the expiration of the 4th year my parents decided to send me to Oberlin. Mrs. Winter Woods who was a [very] talented [???tionest] and, incidentally,a 2 corrresponds to the 8th grade but [he] [said I had never had] since the class had already studied decimal fractions and I had not he feared I [cd not] was not far enough advanced in Arithmetic to enter that grade, He presented my case to a dear little [woman] teacher from N.E. who wore curls down her back and she cheerfully consented to stay after school to teach me decimal fractions so that I might [go on with] enter the 8th grade. [My only recollection of the] [In the High School my] While I loved all my teachers in the H.S. there was one [pretty] little woman pretty as a picture sweet as a peaches only a few years older than her pupils whom I adored. She [taught us] had just received [graduated] her AB degree [from] from Oberlin College. [with] In this class was the daughter of a woman who had formerly been professor in Oberlin College and [then] later had been sent as U.S. minister to Haiti. She could put up a pitiful mouth like a child [in distress] about to cry and have big tears roll down her cheeks one after another whenever she cared to do so. It frequently happened that this mischievous [*Roach Powder-Rag-Bottle washers- asbestos mats- Gas Range-*] [*Oberlin*] UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, 190 Just recently I learned that he passed the civil service examination for Pharmacist for the Marine Service (Hospital Service), and that he stood at the head of the eligible list, and further that he was notified that an appointment was ready for him, but prior to appointment he was ordered to Louisville, Ky for a physical examination where a Southern surgeon reported adversely. I fear that prejudice again won the day in this case, as Mr. Keemer never showed in any way that he was not perfect in health. It is a great pity, it seems to me, that men like Mr. Keemer can not find employment befitting their accomplishments in this great country of ours, and I sincerely hope that he will be given an opportunity among his own people. So confident am I that he will give satisfaction as a teacher, that I am sure you or any one who engages him will thank me for calling attention to him. Bespeaking for him your kindly consideration, I beg to be, Very truly yours, J. O. Sohldicehor Dean School of Pharmacy. 3 mischievous girl did not know her Latin lesson, so when she [was] had been called upon & she failed she wd look at the little teacher with an injured innocent expression [while] primped her mouth up to cry and then let [the] big tears [would] course down her cheeks. This girl [and I] was one of my chums [and I] and I was [enjoyed her antics greatly] always convulsed with laughter when she wept thus in class. It was very difficult for the little girl teacher to keep a [from laughing herself] straight face when she looked at the girl weeping and saw me shaking with laughter. So she asked both my naughty friend and myself to remain after class one day and that she might talk to us. You girls say you love me so much she began and are always bringing me either flowers or something nice to eat, well if one of you [of you] Mary continues to weep every day at her and the other shakes with laughter at her some fine day I'm going to laugh Mu - So - Lit Club 1327 R Street, N. W. PHONE NORTH 8209 Washington, D.C. June 7th, 1922 SIR : Notice is hereby given that the last monthly assembly will be held Friday evening, June 9, 1922, which you are urgently requested to attend promptly at 8 o'clock. A feature of the evening, if not for the season, will be the demonstration by Mr. Robert S. Clay, of the "Wire-Less." The most popular and wonderful invention of the age has been set up to receive the 8:15 concert broadcast locally. The interest of the membership, will no doubt be manifested in this concert, as it is given primarily to show the possibilities of the Radio in connection with our anticipated Sunday afternoon musicale. Subscriptions have been entered by a number of members for the permanent installation of an instrument, the advances made thereon to be refunded to those members when the Club gets in position to do so. It is hoped that you will come out early and enjoy the talk and also the concert. At 9:15 we will be entertained by Mr. Edwin Evans, of England, who will give a short talk on "World Problems." Mr Evans, being a socialist, and much interested in the various social problems of the world, and races, will no doubt, bring to us interesting information bearing on the subject. At 10:15, weather conditions being favorable, the much talked of Schenectady, N.Y. concert will be tried, and no doubt some parts of it, if not all, will be received. Come early, bring some money, and don't fail to see the Secretary. By order of the Executive Committee, J.C. BURLLS, Secretary aloud myself and then I'll be dismissed as a teacher by the School. If you want me to continue to teach you, don't tempt me to disgrace myself anymore". It is unnecessary to state that we behaved ourselves in her class room ever after. [The incidents which I most clearly remember the first yr in the HS are] During the first yr in the H School several incidents stand out very clearly in my mind. I made 100 in my final examination in Algebra. [Arith] I did not learn mathematics easily and I was overjoyed that I had done so well. Then I wrote [my] the first essay I had ever attempted writing. My subject was Birds. I began it in this way. There are a great many birds. Then I proceeded to name all the birds of which there was any record [on which I cd lay my] which I cd possibly find in the encyclopedia or any where else. [And that] I like birds. I do not see how people can be cruel to them was the conclusion of my first [literary effort] invasion in the field of literature. In the middle of the year some good John Joy Edson, Chairman John H. Clapp, Vice-Chairman Thomas Bradley, Treasurer SUMMER OUTINGS COMMITTEE Social Service House: 923 H Street N. W. Washington , D. C. Telephone: Main 992 W. B. Ufford, General Secretary Louise O. Beall, Field Secretary June 1922. Mr. Robert H. Terrell 1615 S Street Washington,D. C. Dear Sir: "When I came out I weighed 128 pounds, now I weigh 137. The baby weighed 10 pounds, now she weighs 12 1/2." "Such wonderful meals. Wish I could afford them at home." "The children and I certainly did enjoy it out to camp and it was due to the pleasant people who were out there and those who had charge of it." These testimonials, quite unsought by the Committee, are the best evidence that Camp Good Will and Camp Pleasant are real havens of rest and delight to many tired, overworked mothers called upon to toil ceaselessly through the rest of the year to keep body and soul together for themselves and their little ones. As one mother expressed it "She (the Superintendent) made it possible for me to stay out of the kitchen and be with my children." The joy of the children is no less real. It is for mothers and children such as these that they may have at least two weeks of joy in their lives this coming summer that we appeal to you for help. Your own vacation we are sure will be the happier in the remembrance of those who are in a real sense your guests at Camp, because you have made their holiday possible. Very respectfully, John Joy Edson Chairman. 5- natured lazy boys who sat near me had prevailed upon me to give them the trial paper on which I had worked some examples in Algebra [and the similari]. These boys had been continuously and notoriously deficient in this subject. The fact that they had worked the examples correctly impressed the teacher in the first place. And then the similarity of the methods used and the explanation of the steps taken between their papers and mine struck her very forcefully in the second place. When my teacher confronted me with the evidence there was nothing to do but confess. The punishment inflicted upon me for assisting the boys in this examination was my mark was reduced so low that I was just allowed to pass. And the boys whom I assisted were marked zero. [That was the first and]That was a lesson I never forgot. It was the last time that I ever [gave] communicated with any human during an examination. It was also during this first year in the H. S. that I acquired a taste and a National Catholic Welfare Council THE HIERARCHY OF THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE MOST REV. EDWARD J. HNNA, D. D., CHAIRMAN REV. JOHN J. BURKE, C. S. P. GENERAL SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MOST REV. AUSTIN DOWLING, D. D. CHAIRMAN REV. JAMES H. RYAN, D. D. SECRETARY BUREAU OF EDUCATION A. C. MONAHAN, DIRECTOR 1312 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. June 14, 1922. Mr. Robert H. Terrell, 1615 S St., City. My dear Mr. Terrell: His Grace, Michael J. Curley, Arch-bishop of Baltimore, President of the Board of Trustees of the proposed school for negroes in southern Maryland, has instructed the Vice-President, Admiral William S. Benson, to call a meeting of the Board for organization and the preparation of preliminary plans. By direction of Admiral Benson this meeting will be held in the office of the Bureau of Education of the National Catholic Welfare Council, 1314 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., on Friday, June 23rd, at ten a. m. Members will kindly come prepared for a morning and afternoon session. Luncheon will be served in the building. Very sincerely, AC Monahan A. C. Monahan, Chairman. ACM/11 6 love for Longfellows poetry. I recited the Famine [during] in one of the rhetorical exercises that year and continued to learn [those] L's poems for [many years] a long time thereafter. During the second year in the HS [something happened] an incident occurred to which I am really indebted for my appreciation and love of the best music. Prof Rice who [was] then [had] director [charge] of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music came to the H.S. to train some girls to sing for the H.S. commencement. [I was one] Among the 9 girls selected to sing I was one of those [who] girls [sang] chosen to sing conralto. After rehearsing us several times Prof Rice asked me to wait one day so that he might talk to me. He then told me he wd like to have me sing in the 2nd Church Choir and join the Musical Union too. I told him I was sure I c'd not read music well enough to pass the examination for the Choir. But he encouraged me to believe I cd and I did. [Later on] I sang in the First Church Choir of Oberlin from the time I was in the 2nd year H.S. till I graduated from [what was then called] the [Classical] gentlemen's Course [by some] of Oberlin College and received the degree of A.B. [Thes] To sing [either] in the choir either of the 1st American School of Classical Studies at Athens John Williams White Memorial Fund Committee H. W . Smyth C. H. Moore W . S. Ferguson C. R. Post A. A. Howard E. K. Rand C. N. Jackson R. K. Hack C. B. Gulick, Chairman G. H. Chase, Treasurer The late Professor John Williams White, one of Harvard's most esteemed teachers, was a Founder of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. During the Forty years of its existence, the School has made notable achievements in the field of Greek art and archaeology, and has given instruction and inspiration to many students of the literature, history, art, and life of ancient Greek. Harvard has sent more students to the School than any other of the institutions which support it. Three Harvard men, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, and John Williams White, have been presidents of the Board which has had charge of the property of the School. The useful activities of the School are now threatened for lack of an adequate endowment, and the Carnegie Corporation has promised $100,000 if we can secure the sum of $150,000. Generous responses to earlier appeals have already been received. We now ask the friends and pupils of Professor White to subscribe $25,000, to be known as the John Williams White Memorial Fund. Contributions of any amount will be welcome, and checks may be made payable to G. H. Chase, Treasurer, 12 Shady Hill Square, Cambridge, Mass. For the Committee, C. B. Gulick. 7 or 2nd Cong church in [?], as well as in the Musical Union, was a liberal education in the best chor[uses]al works [composed] of the old wishers and the modern composers too. I [especiall] looked forward with the keenest pleasure to singing the Messiah every Christmas and I enjoyed nothing so much as taking part in the the wonderful oratorio of Elijah _ As I look back upon the privilege I enjoyed of then attending rehearsals of the choir and the musical union. I feel that the experience was of incalcuable, benefit to me in every way. It taught me to appreciate the feeling that is in music and what greater blessing boon to any human being cd there be than that IN REPLY REFER TO INITIALS AND NUMBER Department of Justice, Washington. June 14, 1922. Judge Robert H. Terrell, 1615 S Street N. W., Washington, D. C. My dear Judge: The 14th annual session of the National Negro Bar Association will be held at Norfolk, Virginia, from August 16th to the 18th inclusive. You are assigned the subject of "Our Judiciary" for a twenty minutes' paper. We have tried to pick the ablest and most successful men of our fraternity throughout the country and we sincerely trust that you will accept the assignment and notify me very promptly. You should be present and take part in the deliberations with a view to building up a strong national bar association; but this cannot be done by remainding away, and, by your absence, encouraging the fault finders. Please let us have your unselfish service and presence. Sincerely yours, Perry W Howard President, National Negro Bar Association. PWH/J.R.L. 2 [But even if the world wont let me tell it what I have done, wanted to do and thought it is my duty to tell the race with which I am 2 identified, particularly the women of the race what] But whether the world [wants] is pining [*clamoring*] to be told about my deeds of prowess [or not] or not, it is my duty at least to try to tell it what a colored women has done, tried to do & thought as she has lived in the United States and occasionally gone abroad. [If the white people of this country knew what [the avera] an intelligent colored women tho't it would surprise many [anger thosands] and make thousands of them grit their teeth and figuratively shake their fists in anger. For nothing disturbs the average individual more than to [hear] read or listen to what [to him] he knows is the gospel truth but what he [wants] prefers not to read or hear.] In the first place few children have had a more delightful childhood than I have had. [At an early age when I was only six years old my parents decided to send me from Memphis Tenn where to Yellow Springs Ohio to school.] [*Letter I wrote to my father about being engaged to Von Devitz. Ask Anna for a copy of the letter written about my fathers mother.*] WASHINGTON SAFETY COUNCIL THREE MONTHS RECORD FEBRUARY - MARCH -APRIL, 1923 To Members of the Council: Accidental deaths in Washington have been reduced 27% during the three months since the active work of your Council was undertaken. During the same period traffic deaths were reduced 17.5% and deaths to children 58%. These figures are based on last years record, omitting those killed in the Knickerbocker Theatre, notwithstanding a 25% increase in one year in the number of registered automobile. If our present record is maintained through the year SEVENTY-ONE PERSONS, including THIRTY-EIGHT CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED. Safety pays large dividends. Our Safe Driver's School has just completed a twelve week course in Safe and Efficient Driving, diplomas have been presented to 151 white automobile drivers and 405 colored, the majority of whom daily drive commercial vehicles around our city. Safety has been visualized on the streets of Washington by the first continuous poster campaign to be conducted in the United States, three slogans have been displayed, one each month. They were posted at one hundred important street corners, throughout government buildings and grounds, in schools, fire engine houses and police precincts, and were carried on street cars, taxicabs, and commercial vehicles. This feature has proven one of the most effective of our activities and is now being duplicated in Baltimore. A booklet prepared by the United States Bureau of Education describing the most efficient method of teaching safety in the schools has been supplied to the 2200 public, private and parochial teachers of the city. A bulletin containing facts and figures relative to local accidents has been sent each month to school teachers to assist them in applying safety instructions to their daily class room work. The May bulletin is inclosed herewith. Several meetings have been held with school teachers and their co-operation urged in teaching safety. The press has co-operated in a very generous manner and by many news items editorials and special articles has assisted to keep the subject before the public. Safety speakers have been provided for a number of meetings of Women's Clubs, Parent Teacher Associations and Citizen's Association. The monthly bulletin is being sent to the President of each of these organizations with the request that it be read at every monthly meeting. A talk on street safety has been broadcasted by radiophone and plans are being prepared to send out a safety message at least once a week. A careful analysis of last years accidents is being prepared to serve as a basis for future safety activities, including suggestions for the changing of conditions or existing laws, where such changes are found necessary. The earnest and continuous co-operation of our members and friends have made our activities and the resulting decrease of accidents possible. Yours for Safety, WASHINGTON SAFETY COUNCIL. 3 For my own part and for the case of the race Some of my friends that I made a big [by declining this offer] mistake by not accepting this position for a year at least. But having definitely decided to marry & [to the college that it wd be a species of dishonesty] knowing that if I did accept I w'd serve only a short time it seemed to me it wd be unfair to accept the position. All my life I have been tormented by a very strong rigid exacting conscience which it has been almost impossible to obey or satisfy. By the way I was [among the] in the first group of colored women to receive the degree of A.B. from Oberlin College. [Until my] Only two Colored women had received the degree A.B from Oberlin College before [the] my class [of] 1884 graduated. One of those women was Mary Jane Patterson who graduated in 1862 was the first col woman in the world so far as the records show to earn the degree of Bachelor of Arts the other was Francine Jackson Coppin who graduated in and founded the Cheyney School for colored youth. There were 2 other colored women [*4 beside myself in the year of 1884 Mrs. Anna J. Cooper who has taught in the High School of Wash D.C. for many years and Mrs Ida Gibbs Hunt the wife of the U.S. Consul to St. Etienne France--I was one of the first Col women to receive degree of A.M. from Oberlin College. I was the 1st [Col] president of a Col woman's association [organization] to make it possible for it to join a National Organization of white women. Just before I did this The General Federation of Womens clubs had met in Milwaukee and Miss Ruffin of Boston Mass one of the pioneer [among club] workers in col women's clubs had gone there as a delegate. When a white delegate from the South saw Mrs. Ruffin who was a very distinguished looking woman wearing a badge she went up to her and tried to scratch it off her dress. At that meeting the Federation of Clubs voted not to accept Col women into membership in deference to the wishes of its Southern members. Naturally the [members of] the N.A. of C.W. wondered whether the National Council of Women would follow the lead of the Gen Fed [of Col Women's Club] & exclude Col women too they*] General. Form 6. File............. (In reply, please refer to above Form and File numbers.) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS WASHINGTON DEAR SIR: The Bureau of the Census is making arrangements to take the next Federal Census of Manufactures, which will include all manufacturing establishments operated during any part of the year 1919. Your name appears on the records of the Census Office among those engaged in manufacturing and, in order to verify or correct the Bureau's card index of establishments and to enable the office to send you the proper schedule on which to make your report, you are requested to supply the information called for on this circular and return it in the inclosed official envelope, which requires no postage. Your answers to these questions are of the utmost importance, and I trust that you will, therefore, give the matter prompt attention. Very respectfully, Sam L. Rogerts Director of the Census. 1. Name of establishment 2. Name of ownder 3. Location of establishment{ State County City or Town St. and No. 4. If you operate more than one esablishment or plant, give name and location of each (Use reverse side of this sheet, if necessary.) 5. Give address of office at which your report for the census of 1919 will be prepared 6. Name principal articles manufactured or kind of work done during 1919 7. If your establishment was idle, when did it close (month and year)? 8. If you have disposed of your establishment, give the date of sale also the name and address of present owner 9. If not manufacturing, state the nature of the business in which you are engaged c 11--6550 [*I had an article entitled Lynching from a N in answer to a scurrilous attack made upon the men of the race by T. N. Page and I am the only Col woman in the U.S. who has had her articles accepted by the 19th Cent which has published 2 of mine.*] AN INSTITUTE AND CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL HYGIENE for the WOMEN OF THE DISTRICCT OF COLUMBIA Octover 4 - 6, 1921 CONDUCTED BY The District Department of Health The U. S. Public Health Service The District Social Hygiene Society The Women's Advisory Council to the U. S. P. H. S. The Institute on Venereal Disease Control and Social Hygiene, held in Washington in the autumn of 1920, proved to be of such practical value and stimulus to many that a demand has followed for similar institutes in various State At the suggestion of a group of Washington women who are interested, such an institute and conference have been arranged for the District of Columbia The object is twofold: to create a thorough understanding of the great problem faced, its scope and complexity; and to focus upon specific needs of the District health program the interest and efforts of local leaders as well as those leaders of large national organizations of women who are residents of Washington. The participation of all agencies interested in this work is heartily invited 5 The day on which I presented my request that the U.A. of C. W. be admitted into membership with the U C of W I went into the meeting with fear & trembling But my fears were soon allayed - There were tear in the eyes of some of the women as they [moved] unanimously voted to accept our association into membership - It was one of the most delightful experiences in my life and I look back upon it with great pleasure & pride - In recent years I was the only col woman When it used to hold its meetings biennially in Wash D C invited to address the A W S A - At the celebration of the aggitation on behalf of W S of the 50th anniversary at Seneca Falls a few yrs ago I was invited to represent F Douglass who had seconded miss Stanton notion asking for equal political rights and I was also invited to represent the Col women of the U S at a memorial service for S.B A in the Berkely theatre in N Y City I am the only col woman who has ever had an article in the N A R in June 1914 7 I know full well that this statement showing in how many activities I have been the first col woman to engage will be cited by some as an evidence of monumental conceit But I am presenting these facts to show what a colored woman has succeeded in doing in the U S in spite of the double burden of both sex & race which she had to bear prejudice against both her sex & her race - It is as unfortunate for the sake of history & truth to be too modest to present the facts as it is to be too boastful and be blatant egotistic - If these prejudice continues to increase It will hence be difficult to make any body believe that in the last of the 19th & the begining of the 20th a few colored women were as intelligent as well educated, as advanced and as active in civil affairs as they were - If race prejudice diminished some may wonder why col women did not accomplish much work - Before begining the story of my lifes that it [*The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, of which we form the Section for the United States, has its headquarters at Bd. Georges Favon, 19, Geneva, Switzerland. OFFICERS President Miss Jane Addams, U.S.A. Secretary-Treasurer Miss Emily G. Balch, U.S.A. Members of the Executive Committee: Mme. Gabrielle Duchêne, France Mlle. Marguerite Gobat, Switzerland Frau Yella Hertzka, Austria Frl. Lida Gustava Heymann, Germany Frl. Martha Larsen, Norway Miss Chrystal Macmillan, Great Britain Mme. C. Ramondt-Hirschmann, Holland Mrs. H.M. Swanwick, Great Britain Consulting Members, Executive Committee, Section for U.S.A. Miss Grace Abbott, Illinois Miss Lillian D. Wald, New York *] Women's International League for Peace and Freedom SECTION FOR THE UNITED STATES National Office Room 1616 33 West 42nd Street New York City Telephone: Murray Hill 5657 Honorary Chairman Miss Jane Addams Honorary Vice-Chairman and Temporary Chairman Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer Secretary Mrs. Lucy Biddle Lewis Landsdowne, Pa. Executive Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Marion B. Cothren Room 1616, 33 West 42nd Street New York City Regional Vice-Chairmen Middle Eastern States Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull Swarthmore, Pa. New England States Mrs. Chas. H. Bond 128 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Mass. Middle Western States Mrs. Frederick Holt 93 Elliott Street Detroit, Michigan Northwestern States Miss Jeannette Rankin Missoula, Montana Southern States Mrs. Frederick Taussig 4506 Maryland Avenue St. Louis, Mo. Pacific Coast States Mrs. C. E. Cumberson 775 Post Street San Francisco, California Executive Committee Miss Ella J. Abeel Mrs. C. H. Bond Miss S. P. Breckinridge Mrs. Wm. J. Bryan Mrs. Eliza M. Cope Mrs. C. E. Cumberson Mrs. P. R. Claxson Mrs. Fanny T. Cochran Mrs. Sophia H. Dulles Miss Helena G. Dudley Miss Zona Gale Mrs. Frederick Holt Mrs. David Starr Jordan Mrs. Jenkin Lloyd-Jones Mrs. Eleanor D. Karsten Mrs. Florence Kelley Mrs. Wm. Kent Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette Mrs. Henry G. Leach Mrs. Lola Maverick Lloyd Miss Anne Martin Mrs. George M. Mathes Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead Miss Mary E. McDowell Miss Rose Standish Nichols Mrs. Geo. Odell Miss Leonora O'Reilly Miss Juliet Poyntz Miss Jeannette Rankin Miss Florence L. Sanville Mrs. Frederick J. Taussig Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Mrs. Harriet P. Thomas Mrs. John Jay White Miss Ellen Winsor Standing Committees Education and Citizenship Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead International Relations Miss S. P. Breckinridge Famine Relief Mrs. Lucy Biddle Lewis Legislation Mrs. George Odell Membership and Propaganda Churches: Mrs. Geo. M. Mathes Clubs: Miss Ella J. Abeel Social Work: Miss Amelia Sears Labor: Mrs. Eleanor D. Karsten Teachers: Miss Katherine D. Blake Patriotic Orders: Mrs. Chas. H. Bond League of Women Voters: Mrs. Richard Gorham Mexico Miss Rose Standish Nichols Oriental Relations Mrs. C. E. Cumberson Pan American Relations Mrs. Louis F. Post Universal Free Trade Miss Ellen Winsor 8 [*Might be interesting to show the few activities in which I was a bona fide pioneer. Being only an ordinary human being I am actuated by several motives to write a story of my life. In the 1st place it is a duty to my race to tell the world what a colored woman born and reared immediately after the War of the Rebellion actually did in spite of the conditions which then obtained. 2 The race has sustained an irreparable loss on more than one occasion when its representatives who have had rare & interesting experiences have passed into the Great Beyond without leaving behind them any record. I have in mind one [several] man in particular who had an experience which no other col man in the US had. A few years after BS Pinchback was a slave he was acting Gov of the State of La for several days. He was active in politics & all thru the reconstruction period and would have left behind a [*sheaf*] collection of facts which would have been priceless to the race with which he was identified but which at his death were forever lost. [but entirely at his death were buried in the [coffin] casket with him] From my childhood I was well acquainted with Gov. Pinchback [After I married he moved to Washington with his family and] For many years he lived and 8 After he moved to Wash with his family Judge T & he became great friends- As Gov P grew older & I realized more & more what an invaluable chapter in the history of the race his [life] experience wd be, I urged him again & again to write a story of his life. I promised to come to him whenever it was convenient to hear and write any facts he wd [give me] present giving him my services free of charge. He assured me he agreed with me perfectly. He said he knew it was his duty to tell the story of Reconstruction from the col mans point of view so as to prove the falsity of certain charges preferred [by those] against colored men immediately after they had been enfranchised by those who deliberately perverted the facts. But unfortunately Gov P kept putting off the day when he was ready to begin until he was claimed by death. I hate to think what a priceless record was lost to the race when Gov P's life was forever sealed. Like Gov Other col men whose [records] careers were most [valuable] interesting have departed this life without leaving behind them a record of what they did and making their race much prouder thereby. I do not claim that my deeds of prowess [*9 are so important that the race wd lose much if they were not recorded. But I know that a history of the work done along various lines by col women who were pioneers can not be accurately written, if the contribution I made is omitted. [*Return to Page 1*] If I tell what Ive done even tho I have overturned the earth Ill be excused of having an inflated idea of my own importance. If I dont tell what Ive done theres no use pretending to write these confessions. Once when I was conversing with a friend he said were you the first pres of the Nat Association of Col Women. When I answered in the affirmative he said have you been the 1st to do any thing else he inquired. Why do you ask I parried. Because all that goes to make up the history of the activities of col women in the U.S. So I am now going to answer my friends question in detail*] THE W.M. FREENY CO. INC. "Make them Better" 611-14th STREET NEAR F Washington, D.C. TAILORS AND DIRECT IMPORTERS OF Exclusive Woolens March 1st, 1924. Judge R. H. Terrell 1615 S St. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Enthusiastic, I'll say we are, but that does not begin to express our feeling in regards to our Spring Opening. We have been depending on the Woolen Jobbers to supply us with woolens as is the universal custom with the Merchant Tailors, but now, we have kicked over the traces and left the heavy load of middle-man's profit for the other fellow to carry. After months of careful buying from the best mills at home and abroad, we feel that we can announce our Spring Opening to you with pride and satisfaction as we believe that there is not a style made that we can recommend to our trade that we have not bought. A selection that will please the man of most fastidious taste, yet not high priced. This is made possible by the support and contribution of The Wollen Mills. Your clothes will be strictly hand tailored in our own modern workrooms to the highest type of excellence. We have increased our shop and cutting facilities so that we will be able to take care of our ever increasing business. We are a strictly one price store the year around, all merchandise marked in plain figures at reduction proof prices. You can buy here now at the opening Spring season with the assurance and guarantee that there will be no reduction at the end of the season. This new method of merchandizing is receiving the hearty indorsement of the public and I am sure it will appeal to you. We ask your continued patronage and support as it requires a large volume of business in order for us to continue to buy direct from the mills. This means an approximate saving of 1/3 to our customers and at the same time maintaining our high standard of clothes satisfaction. Anticipating the pleasure of showing you early befor ethe choice selection is broken, We remain Yours very truly, THE W.M. FREENY CO., INC. Senior & Junior From my earliest recollection It was at Yellow Springs that I began my career as a public speaker perhaps. I enjoyed nothing more than to recite poetry aloud to Ma Hunster. [I have a clear picture of her in my mind.] She wore a small sun bonnet in the house as a rule [from] while she was doing her work and I followed her all around from room to room reciting my favorite poems to her. When I was about 8 yrs old The one that appealed to me most strongly, & affected me most deeply was Give me Three Grains of Corn, mother only 3 grains of corn, It will keep the little life I have till the coming of the morn. I never tired of reciting that poem and if dear Ma Hunster wearied of it she gave no sign. I marvel at her patience with me as I recall it to day. I also took a sort of mournful comfort in reciting Little Gretchen, little Gretchen wanders up & down the street, The snow is on her yellow hair, the cold frost is on her feet. President, Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, 521 Michigan Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. Vice President-At-Large, Miss Ida R. Cummings, 1234 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md Chairman of Executive Board, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce, O. Treasurer, Mrs. Ida Joyce Jackson, 548 East Spring St., Columbus, O. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Georgia A. Nugent, 526 W. "O" St., Louisville, Ky. First Recording Secretary, Miss Roberta J. Dunbar, 58 Winter St., Providence, R.I. Second Recording Secretary, Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Sedalia, N.C. Third Recording Secretary, Mrs. Theresa G. Macon, 506 W. 56th St., Chicago, Ill. National Organizer Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, 209 N. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Chairman of Ways and Means, Mrs Francis R. Keyser, Daytonia, Fla Parliamentarian, Mrs. Marion B. Wilkerson, Orangeburg, S. C. Auditor, Mrs. J.C. Napier, 120 1th Ave., North Nashville, Tenn. Statistician, Mrs. Mary V. Parris, 817 S. Sixth St., Louisville, Ky. Chaplain, Miss Mary G. Evans, 121 East 42nd Place, Chicago, Ill. National Chairman of Printing, Mrs. M. E. Steward, 621 S. 8th St., Louisville, Ky. Editor in Chief, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. "Lifting as we climb" National Association of Colored Women ORGANIZED 1896 AFFILIATED WITH NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN 1900 INCORPORATED 1904 Honorary Presidents Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, A. M. Washinton, D.C. Miss Lucy Thurman Jackson Mich. Mrs. Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute, Ala Miss Elizabeth C. Carter New Bedford, Mass. OFFICE OF MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, A. M., Honorary President 1323 "T" ST., N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. M. Philipsborn & Company, Inc. The House of Courtesy 606-614 ELEVENTH STREET Washington, D. C. June 1, 1925 Dear Madam: We want to invite your attenance upon Two Very Important Private Sales MILLINERY AT HALF PRICE DRESSED AT $11.00 WEDNESDAY, JUNE THIRD The advantage of selection before the public has its opportunity to choose will be appreciated, we are sure--for both events present wonderful values. The Dresses Are Silk A remarkable purchase of about 600 Silk Dresses, from a maker of repute-- which we shall pass on to you at the unusual price of $11.00 They are Crepes of all descriptions, in models that belong to the higher grades; and in colors that reflect every shade of fashion. Dresses for street, afternoon and the more formal occasions. Women's and Misses' sizes Every Hat in the House Our usual semi-annual event, in which you are given the unreserved choice of the entire stock of seasonable Hats at Half Price! They include the best productions of American designers; as well as many striking adaptations of the latest Paris successes. This includes all new summer sports and more formal types. There will be none reserved--every Hat at Half Price The announcement to the public wil not be made until after Wednesday--the day being reserved for you. Very truly yours, M. PHILIPSBORN & CO. [*1 1/2 When the [Christmas] exercises were held preceding the distribution of presents on the Christmas tree I always appeared on the program with a recitation of [The joy of making mud mies] a poem recounting the joy[s] of making mud pies was one of my contributions on such an occasion. At Christmas time my mother sent me the most wonderful boxes which any child ever received. Not only was I myself the recipient of beautiful gifts but each and every member of the family with whom I boarded was remembered as well. One Christmas in addition to a beautiful doll which was hung on the Sunday Scholl Christmas tree for me my mother sent me [a] new dresses & tarts and candies & cakes and fruit. My mother sent me two pretty rings one of which [I lost] disappeared from my finger the first time I wore it. [I attended black] During the time I remained in Y S I attended both the SS and the [services] morning service of the Christian Church. If I missed either Sundays or the morning service while I was in YS, when I was too ill to walk I can not recall it. 2 [*Over 1 1/2 *] During the summer vacations when I remained in Yellow Springs I learned a certain number of lines of poetry every day - In this way I committed to memory some of the best poems in the English - Tennysons Im to be queen o the May mother, Im to be queen o the May was my favorite when I was about eleven yrs. Every morning during the first summer I learned it I repeated it before I arose and if I got a good chance during the day i perpetrated it upon Ma Hunster as well - My mother let me subscribe[d] for the and read Louisa Alcotts - The [first time] thrill which comes once in a life time happened when my name appeared in the back of the magazine as one who had answered a puzzle correctly. Yellow Springs Oberlin Oberlin [70-71] (71-72)(72-73)(73-74) 74-75 - 75-76- 76-77- 77-78- 78-79 1 2 3 4 V C [Peck]C Peck I knew every nook and corner of the wonderful glen in Yellow springs which was once a family summer resort. [*music*] My mother and father were very fond of music. They never tired of hearing the best popular music of that time sung and played. The height of their ambition was to have their only daughter an accomplished musician. [Both the] As soon as I reached Yellow Springs therefore arrangements were made to have me take music lessons. [One of] Both the daughters in the family with whom I boarded played very well indeed and one of them was engaged to teach me. As soon as I commenced my lessons I had to practice at least one hour a day. There was no escape from that No law passed by the Thedes and the Persians was surer to be executed than that. Every afternoon when I came home from school I went immediately to the piano to practise. And the piano was located in a room on the 2nd floor in the front part of that large house away from everything and everybody else. [so that when I when I entered that room] Immediately after I had seen a funeral procession [*Music - Oberlin choir & Union- Rice- Improvised after grandmothers death Treble Clef Club*] OFFICERS WILL R. WOOD, M.C., INDIANA CHAIRMAN JOHN Q. TILSON, M.C., CONN., 1ST VICE-CHAIRMAN J. N. TINCHER, M.C., Kans., 2ND VICE-CHAIRMAN C. BASCOM SLEMP, M.C., VA., 3RD VICE-CHAIRMAN EDWARD H. WASON, M.C., N H. SECRETARY EARL VENABLE, IDAHO, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MRS. ILA I. EMMOTT, ILLS. DIRECTOR WOMEN'S DIVISION T. C. MEEKER, N.J., CHIEF CLERK MILTON E. AILES, D.C., TREASURER PRESIDENT RIGGS NATIONAL BANK EDWARD REICHARD, MO., AUDITOR National Republican Cogressional Committee ALBEE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JOHN Q. TILSON, M.C., CONNECTICUT J.N. TINCHER, M.C., KANSAS C. BASCOM SLEMP, M.C., VIRGINIA SIMEON D. FESS, M.C., OHIO GEORGE S. GRAHAM, M.C., PENNSYLVANIA JULIUS KAHN, M.C., CALIFORNIA C.B. TIMBERLAKE, M.C., COLORADO FRANK W. MONDELL., M.C., WYOMING SAMUEL E. WINSLOW, M.C., MASSACHUSETTS FRANK L. GREENE, M.C., VERMONT WM. A. RODENBERG, M.C., ILLINOIS HOMER P. SNYDER, M.C., NEW YORK ADDISON T. SMITH, M.C., IDAHO C. WILLIAM RAMSEYER, M.C., IOWA GOV. CHARLES R. MILLER, DELAWARE September 7, 1922. Mr. R. H. Terrell, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Terrell: The 1922 Congressional campaign is upon us. Whatever we are to do in the way of intensive organization and educational work must be done early if it is to be effective. [We] have carried the preliminary work along as best we could with the means available, but now, with activities opening all along the line, we are greatly in need of funds. The opposition is organizing for a determined effort to obtain control of the legislative branch of the government. [We] believe, from the support you have heretofore given the Republican cause, that we need lay no special emphasis on the situation confronting us. [We] are sure you appreciate as fully as we do here the disastrous effect of handicapping the Republican president with a Democratic Congress. It is a time of stress, nation wide and world wide, and naturally there has been considerable variance of views as to the [remedy.] But a Republican president struggling with a Democratic Congress, in addition to all the other difficulties he must encounter, would mean so nearly chaos that our present troubles would seen but slight in comparison. [We] hope you can help us with a substantial contribution at this time when we most need it. [We] will endeavor to use it to the best possible advantage. Checks should be made payable to [Milton E. Ailes,] Treasurer, and addressed to the National Republican Congressional Commitee, [701] Albee Building, Washington, D.C. Assuring you of our appreciation of the support you have heretofore given, I am Very truly yours, M.E. Ailes [MEA-C.] TREASURER. 250,000 Shares THE PEPSI:COLA COMPANY Trade Mark Registered (Organized under the Laws of Delaware) No Par Value Common Stock Transfer Agent Registrar GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY New York City New York City _________________________________ Officers and Directors C.D. BRADHAM, President.......................New Bern, North Carolina President Pepsi-Cola Company (North Carolina Corporation); President Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad Company; Vice- President The Peoples Bank, New Bern, North Carolina. L. B. THIGPEN, Vice-President and General Manager, New Bern, N.C. Formerly General Sales Manager for George A. Dickel & Company, Louisville, Kentucky. M.N. SMOTHERMON, Sec'y and Treasurer....New Bern, N.C. M.G. BAKER..................................................................New York City Vice-President Vanadium Corporation. C.M. BARNETT...........................................................New York City President Clinchfield Navigation Company, Inc.; Director Clinchfield Coal Corporation. J.B. MASON...............................................Durham, North Carolina Vice-President Citizens National Bank, Durham, N.C. GEORGE A. SHWAB.......................................Nashville, Tennessee Capitalist R.C. MEGARGEL.............................................................New York City R.C. Megargel & Co. ________________________ All legal matters pertaining to the organization of the Pepsi-Cola Company, transfer of properties and the issuance of its securities are under the direct supervision of Messrs. Ward & Ward, Attorneys, of New Bern, N.C., and Powell, Lowrie & Ruch of New York City. Application will be made to trade in this stock on the New York Curb Market and later to list on the New York Stock Exchange __________________ We Offer a Limited Amount of the Above Stock at $5.00 Per Share _______________ R.C. MEGARGEL & CO. 27 PINE STREET, NEW YORK The information contained in this circular has been furnished to us by the President of the Company, but we do not guarantee or assume responsibility therefor. History The Pepsi-Cola Company is one of the oldest manufacturers of soft drinks in the country, the formulae having been originated by C.D. Bradham, a druggist of New Bern, North Carolina, some twenty-six years ago. Realizing the possibilities of the drink as a popular beverage, $10,000 was paid in, and from this modest investment it has grown to its present proportions. The original Pepsi-Cola Company was incorporated in 1903, and since then has been operating as a closed corporation, although the charter has been amended mon stock and $11,000 par value preferred stock. The present Pepsi-Cola Company, which was incorporated during 1922 under the laws of Delaware, with an authorized capital of 250,00 shares of no par value common stock, has acquired $500,000 par value common stock of the original of outstanding preferred and common stock above mentioned. Formulae, The Company owns the formulae for the manufacture of Pepsi-Cola and Trade- the trade-mark covering the use of this name, which was first registered on Mark June 16, 1903, and re-registered August 7, 1906. Pepsi-Cola is a delightful, and healthful, thirst-quenching and invigorating beverage, and unlike many other Good- drinks contains no harmful ingredients. Since 1903 the Company and its bottling Will agencies have actually spent directly in advertising Pepsi-Cola $656,811.53. The Company started with a small business in North Carolina and naturally confined its advertising chiefly to developing a market for Pepsi-Cola is today well and favorably known through the Southern States, and where the people are familiar with the drink it has been second only to Coca-Cola in sales and amount of business done. Business The business consists in the manufacture of syrup, which is sold to bottling plants and drug stores, which in turn mix the syrup with water and either bottle or sell direct from soda fountains the soft drink known as Pepsi-Cola. Unlike most syrups, the syrup manufactured by the Pepsi-Cola Company will keep for an indefinite time without spoiling. The Company owns a new and modern syrup and bottling plant at New Bern, North Carolina, with a potential capacity of over 3,000,000 gallons of syrup per year. The Company heretofore has never made any serious attempt to develop the sale of syrup to drug stores and soda fountains, for which there is a great demand, but has confined its sales chiefly to bottling plants. Owing to the limited working capital, this has also necessarily been restricted, and while hundreds of applications are on hand at the Company's office from bottlers throughout the country for Pepsi-Cola agencies, its operations have up to the present time been practically confirmed to three States. The new management is now engaged in reviving its soda fountain business, which was abandoned during the war, and extending its bottling business. Past The Company has earned from 1903 to date $1,667,109.69 on the original Earnings investment of $10,00. From 1915 to 1920 the yearly earnings averaged $140,832.80 At the present offering price of $5.00 per share, this would show over 11%. Owing to the high price and scarcity of sugar during 1920 and 1921 the Company's business necessarily was restricted. The growth of the Company's business is shown by the following comparison: Gallons Sold Earnings 1896.................. 105 1906................. 52,191 $43,437.17 1919................ 256,695 131,015.47 Future The increasing demand for soft drinks since the advent of prohibition has Earnings already been demonstrated. The New York Times estimates that $1,000,000,000 will be spent during the year 1922 at American soda fountains, of which there are more than 100,000 in the United States. Today the largest sales at soda fountains are Cola drinks. In addition to drinks sold at fountains, over 3,000,000,000 bottles of soft drinks are sold every year. A reasonable growth under the management and with ample working capital is estimated as follows: Gallons Sold Earnings 1922.................... 500,000 $400,00 or $1.60 per Share of Stock 1923..................... 1,000,000 800,000 or 3.20 per Share of Stock 1924...................... 2,000,000 1,600,000 or 6.40 per Share of Stock 1925...................... 4,000,000 3,200,000 or 12.80 per Share of Stock While the above figures may seem large, the present increase in business of the company would warrant this estimate. Assets From the report submitted by the President, the Company under date of and February 21, 1922, after giving effect to the new financing, shows assets of Liabilities $2,636,211.57. In this statement the good-will, formulae and trade-mark are valued at actual cost of advertising. The liabilities under the same date are $294,259.31, which gives an excess of assets over liabilities of $2,341,952.26, or a book value of $9.36 per share. Purpose In order to provide funds to introduce Pepsi-Cola throughout the United of Issue States the Company is offering 100,000 shares of stock. The proceeds of this sale will enable the Company to inaugurate an extensive campaign, solicit business and take care of additional bottlers, which heretofore it has been unable to do. Legality We are advised by counsel that the legality of the trade-mark and name of Pepsi-Cola, which was first registered in 1903, in unquestionable. Future Mr. Brandham, President of the Pepsi-Cola Company, in his report to us Business states as follows: "With adequate working capital, the Company should sell during the first year at least 1,000,000 gallons of syrup, which should give the Company a gross profit of approximately $800,000, or over $3.00 per share on the entire issue of stock. " It is expected to immediately inaugurated an extensive campaign for the development of its business. This not only applies to the bottlers throughout the country, from whom hundreds of applications are already on file, but also includes the soda fountain business, which for the past three years has been altogether neglected." We recommend the stock of the Pepsi-Cola Company as a security which should show unusually large profits to the purchaser. R.C. Megargel & Co. 2 procession I was afraid to go up stairs into that room alone, but usually I went quite bravely if reluctantly to my task - My teacher insisted that I practice my exercises first. Fortunately for me there was a clock in the room. It was my custom to ascertain just how long it took me either to play a certain number of lines or the whole exercise - And then I would know that [if I] after play[ed]ing these measures a certain number of times my hour wd be up - I recall very distinctly that there was one exercise which consumed exactly five minuted. I wd play that twelve times comforting myself [at the end of each that ] after finishing it each time that I wd have [only] to play it only seven or six times more [before] and then my hour wd be up and I wd be free. [Once when the piano was [located] sitting [in the par] The parlor was [the] an exceedingly large front room on the second floor next to the one [in which the pia] just mentioned. Sometimes the piano was placed in that [And then] Going to 3 practice in that room was like going into a room next door. [I presume] [I am sure] I have never seen such a larger room[s] in a private residence as was that parlor in the Union House. And there are many large hotels in bustling cities which do not boast of a parlor so spacious as that one was. [Many] Sometimes the very size of this room separated so far from the actual living quarters of the big house [frightened] me but [the fact] [fear wd never have been accepted as a reason to excuse me from practicing an excuse to] whether I was scared or not I had to practice just the same. [One] It occurred to me once that I might read a little while I was practicing in the big parlor and being so far removed from [everybody] the family I was certain nobody wd be any the wiser. So I took the Hoosier Schoolmaster to the big parlor one day intending to sandwich in a few pages between the inevitable scales [practicing] and the exercises. I placed the book in my lap and [one day after skirm] became so absorbed in it that I forgot to practice [at all and was only aroused] I did not hear the door R. C. MEGARGEL & CO. Established 1901 INVESTMENT SECURITIES 27 Pine Street - New York July 18, 1922 Mr. Robert H. Terrell, Washington D.C. Dear Sir: The Southern Corporation whose earnings we told you have totaled $1,667,000 on an original investment of $10,000, although its business heretofore has been confined to three states, is The Pepsi-Cola Company of New Bern, North Carolina. The enclosed circular will give you a brief history of the organization, and we cannot urge you too strongly to carefully consider the situation as it is presented. During the past year, the company has greatly improved the beverage, and its increasing popularity is evidenced by the fact that more than 30,000,000 drinks of Pepsi-Cola were purchased in one year in the three states where the company has been selling it. Surely you can appreciate the profit to be made my introducing a soft drink of such popularity in every state in the Union. The new organization, which took charge of the company's expansion on March 1, has not only greatly improved the product but has increased the earnings 100%, and comprehensive plans are developed to rapidly introduce the drink nationally. It is a well-known fact that some of the largest fortunes have been made on low-priced articles. The success of Woolworth, Wrigley and Coca-Cola are all built upon nickles and dimes. Pepsi-Cola sells to the consumer for 5 cents per glass. It contains no injurious drugs or impurities, yet it is a sparkling, refreshing and healthful beverage, - and nearly everybody buys soft drinks. The advent of prohibition has brought about tremendous strides in the soft-drink business. The New York Times estimates that the volume will amount to $1,000,000,000 in 19222. Pepsi-Cola has for years been the nest largest seller to Coca-Cola in the sections where the company has been active, and without an elaborate campaign adverting. It will now be introduced nationally through soda fountains and bottlers, backed up by a vigorous advertising campaign and supplemented by the "verbal" advertising of its stockholders in each state. Those who have the vision to grasp this opportunity now will receive very substantial returns on their investment as the business continues to expand. Only a limited amount of shares will be offered in your district at the present price of $5.00 each, so we would advise that you forward your order and check immediately, even though the amount be small. The company desires a large number of stockholders, rather than a few large investors, so let us enter your order for whatever amount you can afford, and then tell your friends about the investment and the product, - it is on sale in your community in bottles and will soon be sold at all fountains. RCM-M Very truly yours, R.C. Megargel & Co. 5 did. I have heard grown ups say they hated to go to church and they disliked music because they were forced to attend [long] services in which they were not interested [when they were young] and they were forced to practice too long so that they formed a dislike for both when they were young. Undoubtedly temperaments differ as well as tastes. What is one childs meat is another poison. But I am glad I was compelled to practice when I was young. I am sure I wd never have been [a finished] an artist [performer if I had] no matter how much time and energy I spent on the piano. There are many reasons which cause one to reach this conclusion. It wasn't in me I am sure of that . 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[*did and learned [execute] to play the piano as well as I did. I am sure that I never cd have been a finished performer no matter how much time and strength I might have spent in studing the piano but I have gotten a great deal of pleasure from*] Washington, D. C. June 16, 1922 Judge Robert H. Terrell, 1323 T Street, Washington, D. C. Dear Judge Terrell: A large number of the friends of Judge George Fleming Moore, Past Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction, are giving him a testimonial dinner at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington, on SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1922, AT 7:30 O'CLOCK, and they would like to have you and your immediate friends present. This includes the wives or the mothers or the daughters or the sisters or the sweethearts or other guests, either women or men. Judge Moore has done a great work in the educational and fraternal field, being perhaps the highest and the best known Mason, nationally and internationally, in the world; and these friends want to make this one of Washington's real occasions. A group of splendid men and women will be present, and the spirit of happiness and good will and fraternity and of love for this great man will pervade the entire evening. We want you and yours to come and enjoy it. This date was selected because it is the first anniversary of his crowning effort, the establishment of the "The Fellowship Forum." A formal invitation is being sent you under another cover, and it will be a real help to those who are looking after the details of this dinner, if you will send in your reservations, at five dollars per plate, with check to cover the number desired, AT ONCE, to Dr. William L. Robins, Liberty National Bank, Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours, OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, CHAIRMAN, W. D. JAMIESON, J. E. RICE, WM. L. ROBINS, JAMES VANCE, H. A. WHITE, Executive Committee. 4 open when my teacher entered to see what I was doing and she was actually taking the book in her hands before I realized what had happened. Then I discovered that somebody always listened [when I] in every now & then where I was practicing. During the summer vacations I remained in Y S I was required to practice at least 2 hrs- an hr in the morning & an hr in the afternoon. Sometimes I practiced continuously 2 hours in the morning so as to enjoy my freedom for the rest of the day. But, at the age of 11 when I left U S, I played very well for a girl of my years. [*1*] [As then I entered Oberlin] After leaving [*2*] Y S (I did not take music lessons regularly). [*2*] but several times after that when ever it was possible to do so, I engaged a teacher and practiced. And altho in my tender years I often felt that life was a burden because I had to practice I rejoice now that I was forced to learn as much about music as I {*8-12*] 7 After attending this model school several years I was sent to the public school. I enjoyed my studies and was especially fond of Geography in which I received 100 on the final examination. I relate this because I am sure there are very few people in the world who lay any claim to intelligence at all who know less about the Geography either of my own country or of foreign lands. Altho I have traveled extensively since I was a [young girl] child and should know certain sections of my country by heart considering the number of times I have traversed them, I can never depend upon my knowledge of them at all. Few people out of an insane asylum know less about direction or the points of the compass than I do. When people tell me that a building is on the NE corner or on the SW I have no idea whatsoever on which corner it stands. Half my time I do not know whether I am going [north] East or [S] W or whether my residence faces N or S. I have been embarrassed hundreds of times because of this inability to learn the topography of a city. [*8-12*] 6 [people upon the face of the globe can arouse the sympathy and fire the indignation] [of the American public, while they seem to be all but indifferent] [to the muderous assaults upon colored people in the South.] 6 thru the snow reached the college grounds enclosed by a rather tall fence. The gate was frozen so tight that I could not open it so I ttied to climb the fence. By the time I had [the fence] pulled myself to the top rail I was so exhausted that I cd go no further. I cd descend to the ground neither on one side or the other. And then I sat for what seemed to me an interminable time unable to move on that bitter winter morning slowly freezing to death. After a while a man passed by and saw me from my perilous perch. While I was attending this model school my mother decided to have me study German and engaged a student to give me lessons. I have no idea whether I made any progress or not. I can only recall that my German teacher was always very hungry when she came to give me a lesson about an hour before the noon dinner and consumed most of the time eating an apple herself and having me devour one with which she always kindly provided me so that I could keep her company. [*Gassu Platt*] 5 [*4-8-12*] At first I was sent to what I believe was the forerunner of the kindergarten in the U.S. It was called a model school and as I look back upon it today [in many particular] it was really a model for other schools in many respects. One day when I went into the cloakroom to get my things I saw a group of young women engaged in a conversation. [*Some of them*] They had always talked [with me] very pleasantly with the little colored girl the only colored child who was attending [to] the Model School and naturally I liked them very much. From my earliest recollection my social nature has always been very highly developed indeed. As I was putting my hat before the mirrors I saw this group of young women looking at me. I must have become embarrassed and in an [*in*] [effort to] childish way crack a joke about myself, I said [haven't] half mockingly, Haven't I got a pretty face? "You've got a pretty black face," replied one of the group. "Well Id just as live have it as your white one[s]," I replied defiantly. I have often wondered how any young white woman could [deliberately wound] say anything deliberately to wound the feelings of a little colored girl and why [had lone] the other girls in the group didn't do or say something to show they didn't approve of her speech. The distance between Mrs Hunsters house and Antioch College was quite long and on[e] one occasion I narrowly escaped freezing to death. I had bravely trudged along Circulation 50,000 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT THE CRISIS A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 69 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. W. E. B DUBOIS EDITOR A. G. DILL BUSINESS MANAGER 4 September, 1923 Dear Friend:- We are pleasantly located at our new offices, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Call to see us when you are in these parts. You are always welcome! THE CRISIS cannot afford to loan a single one of its subscribers and so I am writing again to request the renewal of your subscription to our magazine. 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(Signed) Emmett J. Scott Secretary-Treasurer LLW James C. Waters, Jr., Secretary. To Judge Terrell. [*After I had been with Mrs Hunster a short time her married daughter Mrs Waring returned to her home bringing her two children, a dear little girl Jennie Romelia and a son George. With these two children I had no end of fun. I taught Jennie Romelia both to talk & walk and later on I taught them both to dance. It was during the days when people danced sets. I wd take Jennie Romelia as my partner & stand George opposite and call out the numbers. Forward 4 I would command. Poor little George wd advance to meet Jennie & me. Then change partners I wd call and divide myself up so that I cd act for both. Then swing corners and grand right left. All those figures were executed somehow to the great joy of the children and the amusement of the elders who used to laugh at our antics & maneuvers till they cried*] [*4-8*] 4 Children in Memphis at that time were entirely inadequate and that she could not rear me properly there my mother decided to send me [away] North to school - Two of her friends had sent their daughters to Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio and Mother decided to send me there too. I was too young to [go to college] secure accommodations in the dormitory of the college [but] so Mother arranged to have me board with a [col] family who kept a hotel called the Union House. I was taken in as a member of this family which consisted of the parents, [two] three grown daughters, one of whom had married and had left home, and two grown sons - I soon began to call [my host & hostess] Mr & Mrs Hunster [Pa Hunster & Ma Hunster] Pa and Ma. Mrs Hunster was really a mother to me in every respect. The daughters I called Miss Maggie and Miss Sallie. Of the latter I was especially fond. She was a petite pretty, vivacious and was very kind to the little girl boarder. When a young student of Antioch College became greatly enamored of Miss Sallie it was I who carried the billets doux for the two lovers who [finally] married shortly after Mr. George Bailey had left school. And how I did enjoy carrying those notes from Miss Sallie to George Bailey. Few children have had a happier childhood than I enjoyed at Yellow Springs, Ohio. 5 man - And if he knows any thing at all about the South he knows Aunt Sallie Ann must be a col servant - "Are you Aunt Sallie Ann's son? I repeated looking him straight in the eyes. [He turned as red as his face and he] [The blood rushed to] His face was crimson "Why do you ask me that " he replied. His voice was calm and he exercised perfect self control. "If you are Aunt Sallie Ann's son I explained, I want you to give me her address. There was an awkward pause when he failed to reply - I can not do that but if you will kindly give me your address i will take it to Mrs Whitby, since you are so well acquainted with her and [I am sure you will] I am sure you will hear from her soon - He was the quintessence of politeness a man of evident culture & refinement - Without [urging him] more ado I gave him my address - I hope you will let me hear from you soon I said - I am very eager to see your mother indeed - "[If he knew to whom I referred as] If there was no doubt whatsoever that he was indeed Aunt Sallie Ann's son - He did not deny it and he knew her name as soon as I heard [thename] Whitby I recalled that this was my old servants name - N.Y. World Pulitzer. Leach. Lewisohn Bank-Brother 6 No news came the next day. The day after a bright idea occurred to me. Aunt Sallie Ann was a Methodist I soliloquized. I'll ask the butler to tell me where the Methodist Church is and I'll go there Sunday after Sunday, I said to myself till I find her. [But which Methodist Church does she belong to Mrs Patterson [asked] when I inquired Where the colored Methodist Church was located John in astonishment. Does the woman you are looking for He waited [Before I could] a second and when I did not reply he continued. Does the woman you are looking for she tend the A.M.E. Church, or the A.M.E. Zion Church, or the C.M.E. Church] But which Methodist Church [does she belong] do you mean [to] asked John in amazement when I inquired where the colored Methodist Church was located. I am trying to find an old colored woman I knew years ago. She lives here somewhere and I remember she used to belong to the Methodist Church or the A.M.E. Zion Church or the C.M.E. Church or just the M.E. Church for colored people which is 7 still managed by white folks. You know there is as many different varieties of methodist churches in this world as there is of Heinz pickles. I don't know John [Im sure] I had to admit. Well, if you dont know anything more about the woman than that she is colored and attends the methodist church, looking for her in this city is jes like looking for a needle in a haystack - Miss Patterson. And that's the way it appeared to me, so I made up my mind I had lost Aunt Sallie Ann forever - I wd never know what she had done to cause her to hide from people she knew - You dont think she cd have stolen anything? suggested my husband - That woman never stole a pin from anybody, I exclaimed indignantly Maybe some of her family did and she's trying to shield them but I'd as soon accuse myself of stealing as Aunt Sallie Ann. Here are some letters for you Bettie said Mr Patterson one morning. There were three but the one 8 in strange hand writing I tore open first. Dear Miss Bettie it ran, Billie told me you want[ed] to see me very much. At first I thought for Billie's sake it would not be right for me to [come to] to see you. But Billie & I have talked it over and I have changed my mind. He says that if I do not come to see you & tell you why I ran away from you twice in the market you may think I have done something wrong. So tomorrow morning [right after] about ten oclock [your break] I'll come to see you. If you can see me then, leave word with the maid when you can & I'll come whenever you set the day. It was signed Aunt Sallie Ann. I am sure I could not have looked forward to meeting a member of my own family whom I had not seen for years with more genuine anticipation of pleasure than I did to seeing this [woman] servant who had been so good to me as a child. Miss Bettie said she when she came the next morning I have come to tell you about my Billie amy myself even tho 9 it may do Billie harm and it may make you turn agin me, But Miss Bettie I cant see my ole friends no more on account of Billie. Hes always been a good boy you know and no matter how much I have to suffer it's my duty to stedy her interests -protect him. We moved here from Alabama when Billie was about 8 yrs old. When [Billie] he was about [little boy] 12 Mr Broady used to have him help him in his store here - Jack loved the work and got along splendid- One day Jack told me he was goin to be a [druggist] pharmacist - I didn't exactly know what that was - so I says, Billie what on earth do you want to be a queer thing like that for? Why dont you try something that you know about like being in a drug store. [Then he just] That is what I want to be Mother he said. So my boy went thru the High School here. After that he made up his mind he would like to go to the school that wd make him a druggist. [While he was waitin on the table one day a] But of course he didn't have [at a hotel] enough money so he went to a hotel to wait on the table one summer because he knew he 10 could make money quicker that way than any other. One day a gentleman he was waitin on asked him some questions about himself and wanted to know what he was going to do. "I want to be a druggist, sir, my son says. Well says the genimen you must go to the Hawser University [It will] That is a mighty good school an it will cost less to be a druggis there than any where else in the U.S. So Billie went there. But after he got there he found out they didnt take no colored boys at all. He jis happened to see this in a catalog. He had already gived the school He had done paid his money He didn't have [money] enough to go way anywhere [an] He wanted the worst way in the world to stay and study. But he tole me that he was afraid it wdn't be right to stay. He was so miserble that he wrote to the gentleman [that] who tole him about the school in the first place and asked him to tell him whether he should stay or not. The man wrote back right away an tole him certainly to stay. Save this sheet 5 The letter dropped from my hand. What had this faithful servant done? I was now determined than ever to see her but how could I discover where she lived? I had gone to the market again & again hoping to see her but she had evidently kept away so as to avoid meeting me. A bright thought struck me. I would go to the various churches. Aunt Sallie Ann was a great church woman. When she [did] could not arrange to attend church in the morning she was sure to be sitting in the Amen corner at night. But the number of churches in this city is legion I [said] mused. [Yes but] Aunt Sallie Ann was a Methodist, of that I was sure. So I [would] decided to make the rounds of the Methodist churches. John [Dilsey] said to our [cook] chauffeur, where is the colored Methodist church? [Lawd a] mercy, which Methodist church do you mean, Miss Patterson, [she] he asked. The largest and best Methodist church I explained. [In]Do you mean the largest Methodist church 6 [of which denomination Miss Patterson] A.M.E. Church, is the A.M.E. Zion Church is the C.M.E. Church is just the M.E. Church for colored people under the management of white people. [You know there are a lot of Methodists in this town Miss Patterson.] [an huntin a colored woman] If you dont know anything more about the woman than that she is colored and attends the Methodist church, looking for her within city is jes like huntin fer a needle in a haystack. And thats the way it appeared to me. So I had lost Aunt Sallie Ann That was gone settled her up. [The mystery wo] I would never known what she had done to cause her to hide from people she knew. You dont think she could have stolen anything suggested my husband The idea I exclaimed indignantly That woman never stole a pin from anybody. Id as soon think your Sister Agatha hiding herself from the world because she had stolen something 2 - ill and had helped Mother sew, when she was in a rush and could get no [one else] seamstress just the minute she needed [a seamstress] one, which was frequently the case - and now this faithful servant had been deserted in her old age by her son, her only son at that, I would go to see her at once - As I came rapidly down the steps my sister called to me, now don't be silly Agatha, In trying to do what you call comforting Aunt Sallie Ann, don't begin by lambasting her son and preach a sermon on your favorite theme, opposition to the higher education of the N. You don't know the circumstances in the case whatever you do, don't start off with a violent speech against giving N. the higher education. Even tho Aunt Sallie Ann now realizes she has made a mistake in giving her only son too much education for her own & his good, she won't like to have you say so Wait a second after you see the poor old woman and let her tell you her side of the story herself. 3- Well I don't know whether I can restrain my very indignation against that boy or not - as I sallied forth. And then I pulled the front door with sufficient force to shut it. There was no likelihood of its coming unlatched of its own accord after I went out Tho of course I did not slam it - When I entered her neat little cottage Aunt Sallie Ann tried to smile at me as she has always [did] done whenever we meet, for I never saw a woman with such a bright sunny disposition in my life. But smiling today was plainly an effort - for she had to make an effort to do it. How do you do, Honey, she said. I was just thinking about coming to see you all myself. I've had a heap of trouble lately and when that's the case I like to talk to your Maw. Now that's unkind Aunt Sallie Ann, I interrupted, since I have come to talk to you myself. Won't I do? Oh yes she replied laughing heartily. You'll do, of course but you are no mother and your Maw is. What is the matter Aunt Sallie Ann I asked I was so full of the desire to comfort her and pour out the vials of my wrath upon 4 mystery but there was nothing to do but wait. I was more determined than ever to see Aunt Sallie Ann. It was not idle curiosity that prompted the desire but genuine interest in a woman whom I had known from childhood. Two [The} days after I had given my address to the man on the car I received a note. Dear Miss Bettie" it read, Billie told me he had met a lady on the car who asked him if he were my son and wanted him to give her my address. I certainly would like to see you, Miss Bettie, but Im afraid I had better not come. Its better for me to keep away from people I used to know. I have [had] to do something which I did not like to do, but I did it for my son's sake it couldnt be helped. You would [not like it] be very much displeased with me if you knew what it was I hope you are well. I love you all the same as I ever did and hope you all are well. Aunt Sallie Ann. He was so misable twell he wrot to the gentleman who tole him about the school and asked him to tell him whether he should stay or not. This man tole him sullenly to stay. What you goin to leave fer, he writ Jack. You aint done nuthin to nobody and Im satisfied you aint goin to do nuthin to nobody. An you cant help it cause you got a couple of drops of blood in your veins what aint exactly white. Well, Jack graduated from this school. No Miss Agatha he didn't zackly graderate. Cause he had to go to the camp in May about 4 wks before the school closed. But Jack had done so well in his studies that they give him disploma jes the same. Well when he come back from the War the first thing he said was he wanted to take a course that wd help him be a first class druggist. He cdn't take a course in the day time cause he had a job. So we went the Benjamin Franklin Uni. Where they have a night class. It is the only school [in [?]] which has 4 anybody who had injured her in any way I could not take a chance of having her keep me in suspense - “I hate to tell you Miss Agatha” she said - Cause what’s hard to explain a to you cause you dont believe in it no how ailing me is somethin you are opposed to. [I know thats But] I feel mighty bad about the way they been treating my Jack. The poor boy had has to leave me cause he codn’t get anything to do here and it’s near about broke my heart. Nonsense, Aunt Sally Ann, I interrupted. That’s all tommy rot. If your Jack had really wanted to get something to do, he would have succeeded. He might have had some trouble to begin with but as much as people are needing help these days, a man who is worth a cent can always get a job. No maam Miss Agatha. You may think you’re right, but I done had the experience and I know. Well tell me all about 6 While he was waitin table at a hotel up N - one summer, a gentleman he was waitin on asked him some questions about hisself & wanted to know what he was a goin to do - Im a goin to be a drugger, sir, my son says - Well says the gentleman you mus go to the Spindler Uni. [It is the ] It will cost less to be made a druggist there than anywhere else in the U S. So my boy makes up his mind to go there if can as cause he didnt know [anthin?] bout where he cod learn to be a druggist - But when my Jack got to the place, he found out there Agatha, they didnt take no colored boys - He jes happened to see it in some thin he was readin But He had already paid the school & he had done paid his money you see, thout known nothin tall about that - [Can Miss Agatha you know] Cose Miss Agatha nobody dont know my Jack aint white lessen somebody tells em. At first Jack [didnt] want to stay - He didnt know whether he was done right or not But he didnt have no money to go nowheres else and he wdn’t have know jest where to go then if he had the money [*Office of the Director DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS WASHINGTON Dear Sir: Your card schedule has just been received, and I am enclosing schedule as requested. Please return in the accompanying official envelope, which requires no postage. The interest you have taken in the matter is cordially appreciated, and I thank you in anticipation of your further cooperation. Very respectfully, Sam. Q. Rogers Inclosures. *] 6 Jack told me one day that he was a goin to be a pharmasis. [Mother says] I didn’t zackly know what that was so I says Jack be. [There ain’t to use talkin I jes love] [to work with drugs and do [the] things in] what on earth does you want to be a queer thing like that for - why dont you be something you a drug store know about and workin at. like [can make money at and] bein in the drug store. Then he laughed at me and said thats jes what I want to be Mother, a druggist”. There is no use of talking says he, I jes love to work with drugs and do things in a drug store. Do what you want to do, son I says. So my boy went thru the High School here, then he worked hard and put himself thru the school that makes him a druggist. [He sent off] for some catalogs while he was waiting at a hotel up North and made up his mind to go to the cheapest school he cod find When he got there he found out theyn’d not let colored boys study. But he had done spent so much money to attend this place, he jes had to stay, cause he wodnt have had enough to travel 5 it, he replied. [Well you see it was this way when Jack was a boy.] You know my Jack's always been a good boy, Miss Agatha [she started] but paused [a moment] at that evidently expected me to reply. She looked at me with such evident pride in her son and conviction on her estimate of him that I would testify to this estimate she had placed upon him [her son]. I did not have the heart to take issue with her on that point so I nodded assent. Well when he was a little boy Dr. Storum used to have him help him in his drug store. Jack loved the work and hear dit everything he was told to do. "Aunt Sallie Ann, Dr Storum said to me when Jack was only a little boy, "that son of yours never gets tired. No indeed, he jes goes right on from the time he starts in the mornin twell he quits at night. The I jes have to fair kick him out says Dr Storum to me. Well it went on that er way Miss Agatha till 1 he wd foot the bill - [[Church I cd quote [*had that letter*] that letter from my father] - It is one of the [letters my father wrote] [few which I sh like] letters received from my father which I shd like to quote word for word. It made me very happy indeed. The first essay I ever wrote as far as I can recall was in the first year of the High School - My subject was Birds and it was something like this - Most birds are very beautiful Some sing and some don't. There are many kinds of birds such as &c Then followed three pages containing nothing but the names of all the birds I cd find mentioned anywhere and my essay was finished. The subject of my essay when I graduated from the H School was Troubles & Trials. Each member of the class was allotted five [members] minutes and every one had to speak. Many people in that audience who were acquainted with me or knew what a [*happy-go-lucky*] jolly girl I was were very much amused at my subject. I tried to prove that most trouble and trials are imaginary and even if they are real they can be either by hook or crook removed altogetheras the[ir] [or consider a] trying they are able to [can] do so can be considerably abated by using a little diplomacy and skill. As an illustration I cited the case of the [pilgrim] penitent who was oredered] 2 to do penance for his sins by walk[ed]ing a long distance in shoes into which peas had been poured. He did so and [arrived] reached his goal foot sore & weary. When he saw another [penitent] pilgrim upon the same penance had been imposed [arrive well and happy he asked him why he had not suffered from the terrible ordeal. But Brother, replied the happy pilgrim I boiled my peas. In the Oberlin High School I formed a friendship which has [been one] lasted throughout my life. [Perhaps] To the casual observer no two girls [were apparently] could have appeared much more unlike that Janey Hayford and Mollie Church. [Physically] To begin [we] with we differed in race. She was white and I was colored. She was a pretty girl blond with blue eyes and light hair. I had an olive complexion was decidedly a brunette. She was quiet reticent almost shy [kind very] dignified a delightful companion when you knew her but hard to get acquainted with. I was the direct opposite quick, vivacious, talkative made friends easily never hung back and was full of fun and hail fellow well and with everybody [when] as we came in contact in the school room or met in the street. But I was always very carefull in picking my real friends. I did not form close friendships with any girl who did not measure up to a high standard both in character and in her [aspirations] ideals. I could not have been intimately associated with any girl who did not care to study [and] or whose character could have been questioned in any way.] 3 [I am] Since I was away from home and had no one to scrutinize my friends closely, my own standards of a young girl were my salvation [as a young girl]. I might easily have formed friendships with girls who were above reproach in every respect but with whom an intimate friendship might (and have done[*3*] harm) or (wd have done [*2*] no good to say the least) [*3*] [[At this time of life I can truthfully say thank God for the friends of my youth. To day] Friendships [which boys and girls] formed in the High School have made or marred the career of many a woman and a man. They often [give] give the slant so to speak or point the direction in which the boy or girl grows to manhood or womanhood will eventually go. And so as I look back upon the friends of my youth, I thank God from the depths of my heart. (I formed [*2*] another friendship in that Oberlin High [*2*] School) with a girl of my own race) which has lasted a life time and which has always been very dear. It was with Ida Gibbs daughter of Judy Mifflin Gibbs for many years a distinguished citizen of Little Rock Ark and who maintained a home [for his wife & children] in Oberlin Ohio while some his children were attending school. Like Janey Hayford, Ida Gibbs and I [went from the] started in 8th grade [together], graduated from the High School, then from the preparatory department and then [from the] received the degree of A B from Oberlin College together.] 4 [[During The last year of my High School Course] My [association] friendship with Janey Hayford illustrates a point which I should like especially to emphasize. Namely the advantage of the mixed school. It did both the white girl and the colored girl a great deal of good to form a close friendship with a girl of the different race. [After having been intimately associated with an intelligent colored whose girl could never have the same dislike for colored people.] After having been closely associated with an intelligent colored girl whose standard of conduct was at least [the same as] equal to her own whose ideals were as high and whose personality appealed so strongly to her that she preferred the friendship of that col girl to that of many [white] girls of her own race, that white girl could never entertain the same feeling of scorn, contempt and aversion for all colored people that she might otherwise have done. No matter [what some of] how many of her white friends might [say about the] claim that certain defects and vices were common to all colored people alike she would know from intimate association with [her own] at least one colored girl that those blanket charges preferred against the whole race were not true. It wd be difficult for her believe that [just as] her own particular colored friend was the only exception to the rule laid down by the critics of colored people as a whole. Intuitively she wd know that there were many such exceptions and she cd never place such a low estimate upon the mentality & moral qualities of the whole race as she wd do.] 5 [if she [had not been] did not know from personal experience the desirable and delightful qualities of mind, heart and temperament [disposition] which at least best representative of the race possessed. On the other hand, no matter how many sins of omission and commission white people might commit against colored people, a colored girl who has enjoyed the friendship of a white girl knows by this if by no other token there are some white people in the U.S. too broad of mind and generous of heart to put the color of an individuals [the] skin above every thing else. The col girl knows the heart of one white girl has beaten in unison with her own, she exchanged confidences with [each other] her and she has relied upon the good will borne her by the white friend. Therefore no one can make this col girl believe that all white people are innately hostile to her race that there can be no common ground of mutual understanding and good will between them. Even if the colored girl has seen white people give no other exhibition of fraternity with her [own] race, she knows from her own experience that white people as individuals can be kind, and lovable and indifferent to the color of our skin.] 6 [When white children and colored children attend school together they learn the lesson of mutual understanding and tolerance as they can in no other way. They form friendships in school which do good even if they do not last. * [*Over*] One of the most discouraging phases of the Race Problem today is that where there are separate schools, there is no way for white and colored children to learn to know [and understand] each other. [They] The two races grow up disliking each other because they do not understand each other [In those sections] Each one thinks the other is his mortal enemy. In explaining the reason why the friction between white & col people in the South today is greater than it was right after the Civil War [25 or 30 yrs ago] those who claim to know say it is because the contact between col & white people was much closer then than it is now. White people are not so friendly to col people now as they once were because they are not closely bound together by mutual interests today. Somebody has said that [a] one man can not hate another, if he understands him. So long as the children of the two races are separated [in many sections of our country] and there is no effort made to bring them together in their youth the outlook for mutual understanding and forbearance between the 2 races is very gloomy indeed.] *[*See page 6 1/2*] My mother came from New York to see me graduate from the High School. She had left Memphis and had established a hair store on [*Page 7*] 6 1/2 [*Cholera in Memphis*] [During [the] my second year [I was] in the high school I was quite ill [most of the] By sheer force of will I dragged myself to school which was just across the street from where I was boarding. As I look back upon that illness I believe that if I had not practiced the doctrines preached by the Christian Scientists of today, I might easily have given up the ghost. Of course Christian Science was still in the mind of its founder at that time and had not been established as a religion so I knew nothing whatever about it. The husband of the lady with whom I boarded had been one of the first, if not the very first Colored man to graduate from Homeopathy. She was well acquainted with a white homeopathic physician in Cleveland Ohio who had acquired a greater reputation for skill- So she wrote to him and asked him to come to Oberlin to see me. I myself wrote to the physician and told him all about my school, how much I enjoyed my work and stated that I had decided to take the Classical Course and study Greek. This distinguished physician came [to Oberlin] from] 6 3/8 [Cleveland to Oberlin to see me, a distance of 33 miles -He diagnosed my case and prescribed for me and promised to come to see me again. (He [*2*] kept this promise [*2*]) [as] ([*1*] Busy as he was) He had to lose a large part of the day to make the journey because while the distance was not great, the trains between Oberlin & Cleveland were comparatively few. He helped me greatly and when I asked him to send me the bill, it amounted only to 10, including everything, the consultation, the letters he wrote me, railroad fare both ways several times, and even the medicine which he frequently sent me himself. But I believe it was the ocean baths which I took in and around New York- good food my mother's care during that summer which restored me completely to [my] health. My mother sent my brother and myself either to Brighton or Manhattan Beach. Naturally Coney Island was thrown it for good measure once in a while. But I ([*2*] and lived out in the open air nearly all day long and) (bathed in the salt water daily) I had left Oberlin at the close of school weighing less than one hundred pounds & looking as tho I were going into decline and returned weighing 115 lbs the very picture of health.] [*Return to page 6*] 8 [Was indellibly impressed upon my mind. No one who witnessed that scene could ever forget it. Thousands of people left Memphis that night. [The] It was impossible for [some] many to find seats in the numerous coaches which had been provided to take the people from the stricken city. [There] The heat was stifling and there was no water for thirsty people to drink. Some thrifty men and boys sold water for ten cents a glass and it was extremely difficult to get at that price. There was great pandemonium in the station [People] Some were weeping loudly because they were leaving loved ones behind or others [being] were loudly lamenting that they were being basely directed by their family, [And] then all who could not get away were ridiculing or denouncing those who were [running away] fleeing from danger and as the train finally left the station long after schedule time, some prophesied that many who were cowardly running away from the fever would undoubtedly get it anyhow. It was difficult for the train officials to induce some who were hanging on the train to get off before the coaches pulled out. When my father reached Cin. he sent my brother & [purchased our tickets for New York] myself to New York and returned immediately to Memphis. People were willing to sell valuable property for a song. [All they wanted was a] They were willing to accept a few hundred dollars in] 7 [6th Ave in New York City. I went to Memphis to visit my father and lived with my grandmother in a little cottage which my father owned. I was having a delightful time with [the] my friends [of my youth] occasionally attending a picnic which was held in a grove when I suddenly [the] yellow fever epidemic broke out and I was obliged to leave. One day a German woman who lived very near came to our house to urge my grandmother to come to see her husband who was very ill. My grandmother was known for and wide as a good Samaritan and she went with her neighbor to render her any assistance in her power. After my grandmother had been gone a short while I thot I wd follow her [go to see what was the matter,too]. As I entered the room where the sick man lay I was struck with the color of his face. It was as yellow as saffron. After I had been in the room a few minutes when my grandmother [saw me enter the room she] my grandmother came to me [quickly] and I cd see she was alarmed. She told me I want go home immediately for she was sure the patient had the yellow fever and was dying. I had hardly] 7 [[As soon as] my grandmother [saw me] knew as soon as she saw [*2*] the patient that he was dying with yellow fever. I remember that he was a yellow as saffron. My grandmother allowed me to remain in the room only a few minutes and then took me home. She was really distressed that yellow fever had broken out in Memphis again for she had told me of the awful scenes she had witnessed during an epidemic only the year previous. My heart stood still as she told me about the wagon loads of corpses she had seen passing the house on their way to the cemetery and described the horror of the nights rent every now and then by the piercing shrieks of women who stood at the death bed of [some member of their family] mother or husband or child. Shortly after [my grandmother and we] I returned from our dying German neighbor, my father came rushing in hot haste to tell my grandmother to get my brother and myself ready to leave Memphis that night. There will be another epidemic of yellow fever in Memphis he said - Three cases had already been reported and I know just what that means. I'll send the children to their mother in New York, taking them as far as I can myself and then return. That night] 8 [reached the house before my father came in greatly excited and said several cases of yellow fever had been reported there wd undoubtedly be another epidemic and my brother and myself must leave Memphis immediately. He told my grandmother she must get someone to help her launder our clothes right away, that we must pack our trunks and leave on the midnight train - He wd go with us as far as Cin then return to Memphis and while we went on to New York. No one who left Memphis that night can ever forget that scene. Some claimed that at least 5,000 people left and others said there were more. The whole of Memphis seemed to be at the station trying to get away. Naturally the trains going in every direction were late starting and the confusion at the station was indescribable. [Those] Many who were going were weeping and those who cd not [go] leave were crying as tho their hearts wd break. Every now & then a defiant voice wd say, You are trying to run away from death - You are leaving poor folks behind to die. They haven't money enough to get away from the city. But you better look out - Death can find you where you are going] General. Form 6. File............. (In reply, please refer to above Form and File numbers.) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS WASHINGTON DEAR SIR: The Bureau of the Census is making arrangements to take the next Federal Census of Manufactures, which will include all manufacturing establishments operated during any part of the year 1919. Your name appears on the records of the Census Office among those engaged in manufacturing and, in order to verify or correct the Bureau's card index of establishments and to enable the office to send you the proper schedule on which to make your report, you are requested to supply the information called for on this circular and return it in the inclosed official envelope, which requires no postage. Your answers to these questions are of the utmost importance, and I trust that you will, therefore, give the matter prompt attention. Very respectfully, Sam L. Rogerts Director of the Census. 1. Name of establishment 2. Name of ownder 3. Location of establishment{ State County City or Town St. and No. 4. If you operate more than one esablishment or plant, give name and location of each (Use reverse side of this sheet, if necessary.) 5. Give address of office at which your report for the census of 1919 will be prepared 6. Name principal articles manufactured or kind of work done during 1919 7. If your establishment was idle, when did it close (month and year)? 8. If you have disposed of your establishment, give the date of sale also the name and address of present owner 9. If not manufacturing, state the nature of the business in which you are engaged c 11--6550 [*Custis Pickett Johnson Bond Scott Cuvey Frye Hally Clifford Cromwell Young Terrell*] 9 [ just as easy as he can find us here with the yellow fever. Water was selling at 10 cts a glass or cup and my father had to search a long time before he cd find me a [glass] drink of water even at that price. Friends have told me afterwards of the harrowing scenes which were enacted in the stricken city. [There were] Truck [loads] laden with corpses [taken past for burial and] passed thru the city on the way to the burial place. All thru the night the piercing shrieks of those who were losing loved ones rent the air. Those who lived thru the yellow fever epidemic of 1878-79 in Memphis always shudder when they recall them. In spite of the danger my father returned to Memphis and made himself the laughing stock of very wise business people because he used every penny he had saving buying the real estate which was offered to him at a bargain. And bargains then were a plenty during that yellow fever epidemic. Hundreds of the property owners of Memphis were in a panic for they believed the city was doomed. Thanks to my mother's generous] 9 cash for property worth may thousands and so my father spent every penny he had in buying property from panic strcken people Some of her friends thot Bob Church had lost mind. He was buying property in a city which had had 2 epidemics of yellow fever in succeeding years they said. Memphis was undoubtedly doomed - But my father declared that there was no good reason why Memphis should not be one of the most healthful cities in the U S - [It is a bluff] Isn't it called the Bluff city, he wd ask - Thats just what it is, a city built up on a bluff. The reason why Memphis has epidemics of yellow fever is because the streets are in such terrible condition. X [There are great pools of stagnant water standing in the streets. There pav] X The streets are paved with blocks of wood which quickly rot and great pools of stagnant water stand in the street. Thats the cause of the yellow fever. When the city is cleaned up and properly paved there wont be any yellow fever and Memphis will be one of the most healthful and desirable cities in the U S - I go into detail about this matter to prove how sagacious and logical and farsighted my father was - When things returned to normalcy my father owned property in some of the most desirable sections] [*My mother sent me very stylish clothes the hat I didnt want to wear Took my brother to school Returning from abroad went to see him graduate - Ticket not a thru one wd have Had to leave sleeper at Louisville Southern man said I might stop at hotel another man pd for my ticket thru Met an opera singer 1st col woman of any period to write story of her life - Did not pass my youth in poverty. Hope the reader will not lose interest in me on that account.*] General Form 6. (in reply, please refer to above Form and File numbers.) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS WASHINGTON DEAR SIR: The Bureau of the Census is making arrangements to take the next Federal Census of Manufacturers, which will include all manufacturing establishments operated during any part of the year 1919. Your name appears on the records of the Census Office among those who engage in manufacturing and, in order to verify or correct the Bureau's card index of establishments and to enable the office to send you the proper schedule on which to make your report, you are requested to supply the information called for on this circular and return it in the inclosed official envelope, which requires no postage. Your answers to these questions are of the utmost importance, and I trust that you will , therefore, give the matter prompt attention. Very respectfully, Sam.L. Rogers Director of the Census 9-35 1. Name of establishment __ 2. Name of owner __ 3. Location of establishment State __ County__ City or town __ St. and No.__ 4. If you operate more than one establishment or plant, give name and location of each __ (Use reverse side of this sheet, if necessary.) 5. Give address of office at which your report for the census of 1919 will be prepared__ 6. Name principal articles manufactured or kind of work done during 1919 __ 7. If your establishment was idle, when did it close (month and year?)__ 8. If you have disposed of your establishment, give the date of sale __ also the name and address of present owner __ 9. If not manufacturing, state the nature of the business in which you are engaged__ e 11-6550 10 [care of me - my health was [again] greatly improved again by the salt water baths and the open air regime pursued during the remainder of the summer vacation which I spent in New York X X X When I reached New York I was ill for several days with a high fever and had to stay in bed. I tried to think the attack was not even remotely related to the Memphis Yellow fever altho I c'd not help remembering that somebody had said it was a great pity Mollie had gone into the room of the German stricken with yellow fever while he was dying because it is more infectious then than any other time - But I ate lemons by the dozen and was soon perfectly well - During the remainder of that vacation [in New Y] I spent much of my time in the open air at the various beaches near New york to which my mother generously allowed me to go as she had done the previous year. In the fall of 1879 I entered the Senior Class of the Oberlin Prepatory department. I boarded in the Old Ladies Hall which [stood] occupied the site where Talcott cottage now stands. [to day]. My roomate [came from] a nearby city in Ohio and studied music - The tables in the dining hall seated eight and it was the custom for the students to choose those whom they wanted at their respective tables for the term of about 3 mos. Mrs Hatch who had charge of the dining hall [assigned to certain tables] seated those who had not been invited to any 10 [of Memphis- He had bought for 10000 property was value was easily thirty times as great. And that is how my father acquired the reputation of being a rich man. It is a great temptation to say much about my father. He was a remarkable man in many respects. He was by no means a saint. Far different. He had the view & defects common to men born, reared & environed as he was for many years of his busy life. Having said that much I have conceded enough [on behalf] for that side of his life. Altho he never went to school a day in his life he read anything he wanted to peruse. He learned to read by reading the newspapers I think. He could write his name, legibly, clearly, even beautifully but he never wrote a letter to my knowledge. He always had a trusted man write to me while I was at school while. In conversing with him, few wd have suspected that he was an uneducated man except for an occasional pronunciation of a word to which even educated southerners are often addicted. For instance he might speak of the fast [weeks?] of the first of the month. So far as I can recall that was the most glaring error he made. He made singularly few mistakes in grammar At present I can recall none tho in the natives] 11 special table. Sometimes near the close of the term I wd be invited by a friend [some girl] to sit at her table during the [*In the middle of the term or*] next term[ next term] and I wd cheerfully consent to do so forgetting that at the very beginning of that semester I had promised to sit with another group. Then each of these girls wd give my name to Mrs Hatch as one of the 8 who had promised to sit at her table. And when I was not seated at one the tables to which I had been invited [then] an explanation was necessary of course. Mrs Hatch said I gave her a great deal of trouble because too many tables wanted me. In the Ladies Hall at that time there was no discrimination whatsoever against colored students. [were kindly received. The sentiment among the college was in favor of it.] Outward manifestations of race prejudice in Ladies Hall wd not have been tolerated one minute by the those in authority. The contrast between the treatment it accorded colored students at Oberlin in my generation and that meted out to them to day is very striking indeed. But I will discuss that phase of the subject later on. My associates were naturally members of my own class and generally those who roamed in Ladies Hall. Until I reached] 12 [the Junior year the only colored class mate I had was Ida Gibbs- During the [time] 3 yrs I lived at Ladies Hall, when I was in the Sen preparatory & freshman classes and during my senior year I never once felt I was being discriminated against on account of my color. During my senior preparatory year there was a girl [from Toledo] living in Ladies Hall [Ohio] who danced exceedingly well and who enjoyed it too. She was my regular partner and few were the nights when we did not go to the gym and go thru all the turns we knew. Dancing was not so common then as it is now and was frowned upon much more. College girls were not allowed to dance at any function. But both the teachers in the Hall and the other girls encouraged my partner & myself to dance by looking at us and complimenting us. During that year I secured [a] permission from Mrs A.A.F. Johnson who had charge of college women which it is claimed she had never given before. Lawrence Barrett and Marie Wainright were producing the plays of Shakespeare at Cleveland and I wanted very much to go to see them. The girls with whom I discussed the matter advised me not to tell Mrs Johnston] 13 [Johnston what I wanted to go to Cleveland but just get permission to go and do what I wanted after I arrived. But I decided to pursue a different course. Mrs Johnston I said, as I entered her office, I want to go to the theatre in Cleveland to see Lawrence Barrett & Marie Wainright play two of Shakespeare play. Miss Gibbs will go with me. We will attend the matinee and the performance at night then return the next day." I asked permission to do this as tho it were nothing unusual at all. Mrs. Johnstons hair was red and two little curls hung down one under each side of her back coil. Her face became as red as her hair at the very audacity of such a request [from] Here was a college girl actually asking to go to the theatre and that theatre is in Cleveland. But she granted the permission for Miss G & myself most graciously after she asked me a few questions and extracted certain promises. The girls called Mrs Johnston Lady J. "If you want to get permission from Lady J don't go to her like a condemned criminal", they said but look her in the eye as tho you knew exactly what you wanted and expected to get it." On one other occasion I had to take a journey to transact some business for] 14 [My father and had no difficulty whatever in securing permission to go. During my Senior preparatory year I had one of the best teachers of my entire course. Prin White as we called him taught us Greek was vivacious, interesting and [exacting to a degree] inspiring as a teacher cd well be. He had high standards for his students and succeeded in making most of us live up to the When we explained the case of a noun or the mood of a verb he not only required us to give the rule but along with the rule we had to give a sentence in Greek illustrating that point. For a time I was the only girl in [that] a Greek class [of] with 40 boys. No one who read Homers Iliad with Prin White can ever forget either the poem or the teacher. For many years I kept the recitation card on which Prin White kept the class record. He marked on the scale of 6. When he handed me my card [on] which lacked 1 of being perfect he said in his quick nervous way fixing me with his keen blue eyes "Miss Church you should be proud of that record." I was and still am. Praise from Prin White was praise indeed and I can thrill even unto this day nearly 45 yrs after the incident occurred when I think of it. I also remember another occasion with pleasure & pride. It was when I received praise from my] 15 Latin teacher, because I had scanned a certain passage in Virgil so well. I can recall [*one*] those latin lines to day and the genuine feeling with which I read, Da pater augurium, da moemia fessis. Professor Prost who taught College Greek was [another] one of my favorite professors. He looked like an ascetic tall and straight and thin. I usually sat on the front seat in his classes and drank in every word he said. He was always an inspiration to me. I had mathematics under Professor Churchill whom each and every one of us dearly loved if we did not serve him as faithfully as we should have done. I might just as well confess right here that no one of my professors in Mathematics ever singled me out from my class to praise the excellent work I had done. Far different, I had enjoyed Algebra in the High School but when I tackled Geometry, truly I met my Waterloo! I loved Miss Wright, my teacher in Plane Geometry and wanted to do well for her sake as well as my own. I struggled hard and she tried to help me, but I barely pulled thru. How I loathed Plane Geometry. It was the first subject I had] 16 [which was difficult for me to understand and leave. It wounded my pride and literally hurt my feelings. I did a little better in Solid Geometry but I did not set the world afire even in that. Altho I University Algebra was not required I took it as an extra in mathematics to expatiate my sins, perhaps. I managed to pull thru Trig-- also, but not with flying colors, I must confess. I am glad I was rather stupid in Math. All other subjects were so easy for me, that I might have become a bit conceited, if I had [not] stumbled over nothing in my college course - In science I was less than excellent and more than fair. Prof. Wrights modesty and calm and his thorough Knowledge of his subject appealed to me strongly even tho the facts he taught did not interest me as much as I wish they had. Logic under Prof Ellis opened an entirely new field to me and I did my level best to understand it. I looked upon President Fairchild who taught me moral philosophy as a paragon among] 17 [men and a veritable saint on earth. Altho his emphasis on benificence would amuse some of us occasionally I believed his doctrine was sound thru & thru. More than once when a student propounded a question to which it was rather difficult for Pres Fairchild to answer he wd reply I will think about that and let you hear my opinion tomorrow - [I remember] After Pres Fairchild had inveighed against practicing deception of any kind a student asked him if [it wd be wrong for] a man pursued by a lion could escape death by deceiving the [lion] animals in any way, if that particular deception wd be wrong. No matter how absurd a question might be the student who propounded it always received a Kind and courteous reply. Pres Fairchild never tried to make a student appear ridiculous, no matter how much he might have deserved it by the manner in which he addressed him. I almost completed my course in Oberlin College without being obliged to think of my race and color. I had one and only one experience which I might not have had if I had been white - In my Freshman year I was] 18 [elected class poet unanimously, I think. I started to write poetry when I was in the High School. I wrote a poem to my mother by the light from the stove in my room in my second year. A poem I wrote for class rhetoricals in my [Senior Part] Freshman year received commendable praise from my teacher Prof. Frost. I chose as the subject of my Class day poem the Fallen Star and initiated the hexameter used by Longfellow in Hiawatha. I had been rather generally regarded as the class poet. When the time came to elect speakers for the Junior Exhibition it was the consensus of opinion among my classmates that I wd be elected the poet - But Vincent received enough votes on the first two or three ballots to prevent me from being elected. At that time I cared so little for the honor that I wanted to withdraw my name and leave the field alone to Vincent. But some of my classmates sitting beside me held me down and persuaded me not to do so. Finally, after about six ballots had been cast Mr. Vincent was elected class poet. He had never shown any talent in that direction. So far as I can recall He had never written a poem] 19 [for the class. [For that reason] I believe I am justified in thinking that if a white girl had won the same reputation for writing poetry that I had she wd probably have been elected class poet for the Junior Ex. instead of a man who had exhibited no skill at all in that direction. Some of my classmates criticized Vincent severely for not withdrawing in my favor after several ballots had been cast, as the average male student wd probably have done if his rival had been a white girl. But I quickly recovered from my disappointment and did not allow it to affect me during the remainder of my college course. Prof Ellis gave the Juniors a party right after the exercises which were held in the 2nd church in the afternoon. My mother had sent me a beautiful silk dress for this party which had been made by an artist and was very becoming indeed. So that in spite of the fact that I felt I had been the victim of discrimination on account of my race in the class election for the Jun Ex, at the Junior party no one was happier than myself - [* See page 22 bottom of page*] In my Freshman year each member] 20 [*See this*] of the class year was required to write a book review. I [took] selected Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities. In concluding my review I compared Sydney Carton with Jesus Christ saying that it must have been far easier for the Savior to give his life to redeem [countless millions] mankind from [their] sins than it was for Sydney Carton to sacrifice his life for a single friend because the Savior knew he wd receive the gratitude of countless millions forever & forever as long as the world stood, whereas Sydney Carton knew that he was laying down his life for only one human being - the woman he loved. And he could not be sure that the gratitude she wd feel for [*2*]him would be very great after she was married to the man she loved when he lay cold in death. Prof Frost declared that such a point of view was rather remarkable but he did not criticize me as severely as the average teacher wd have done - He endeavored to make his pupils use their brains and think. He liked originality of thot even if he did entirely approve of its fruits. - Once a week usually on Monday morning we had to go to Bible Class to receive instruction in the Holy Scriptures. The one dispensation of Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.