ABSTRACT
This letter chronicles one of the last examples of behind-the scenes cooperation between Washington and Du Bois in attacking civil rights issues in the South. The "committee" mentioned here is the Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, envisioned as an executive committee of national black leadership which would attempt to maintain cooperation and harmony between factions in African American leadership. Washington and Du Bois were responsible for organizing the committee. Du Bois's conviction that he was excluded from this process accentuated the split between the two men. This letter is available in the Booker T. Washington Papers, Library of Congress, container 20; it was reprinted in BTW Papers 7: 414-15.
