Apology for Trotter & Endorsement of Mr. RS King for Position in Wilson Administration

Title

Apology for Trotter & Endorsement of Mr. RS King for Position in Wilson Administration

Creator

Holmes, Victor P.

Identifier

CS49

Date

1914 November 15

Description

Expressing sympathy with Wilson's administration and endorsing Mr. R. S. King for a position in that administration.

Source

Library of Congress
Wilson Papers, Series 4, 152A Reel 231, Manuscript Division

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
African-Americans--segregation

Contributor

Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock

Language

English

Provenance

Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.

Text

Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 15th 1914,

The Honorable, The President of the United States, Washington, D.C.

Sir:-

In the City of New York there are a few hundred colored Longshoremen(citizens) who make their living as stevedores. These men have a meeting room and are organized into a club known as The Longshoreman's Goodfellowship club.

We meet, exchange views and do whatever we can to promote our welfare.

We take occasion to assure you that we are in sympathy with your administration and shall always be glad to do what we can to promote good government.

We are sorry for the occurrence a few days ago caused by one Monroe Trotter there, and hope that what the level headed representative men of our race may do in the future will serve to destroy any ill effect Mr. Trotter's wrong acts might have had.

In this connection, permit us to say, it has come to our notice that Mr. R. S. King, attorney of Brooklyn, here, who has fought the battles of many individual members of this Club and also been of great service to the Club as a whole, is a candidate for a position under your administration.

We heartily endorse Mr. King, and strongly hope that you will appoint him. It will do credit to us. We sympathize with him because he came up the rough side of life without help and is a credit to men in our line.

Victor P. Holmes
Acting Secretary and Treasurer.

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CS49.pdf

Citation

Holmes, Victor P., “Apology for Trotter & Endorsement of Mr. RS King for Position in Wilson Administration,” 1914 November 15, CS49, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.