JE Ralph to Charlotte Everett Hopkins
Title
JE Ralph to Charlotte Everett Hopkins
Creator
Ralph, Joseph E., 1863-1922
Identifier
SE072913
Date
1913 July 29
Description
JE Ralph asks Mrs. Hopkins to give her views on segregation in the Bureau to Miss Nerney of the NAACP.
Source
US National Archives and Records Administration 450/79/10/3 box #6 entry 12 A1
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Contributor
Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock
Language
English
Provenance
Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.
Text
My dear Mrs. Hopkins:
As you advised me in your letter of the 25th instant, Miss Nerney, of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People, wrote me asking for my views on the policy of segregating the colored employes, and I have today addressed her a letter, of which I enclose a copy for your information.
I also forward for your information a copy of a letter which I have today written to Mr. Williams, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, with whom I discussed Miss Nerney's letter, and who incidentally asked your connection with the matter.
As you will note from my answer to Miss Nerney, I have suggested that she obtain your views on the subject, and I would suggest that you give her your views strictly from the welfare point of view and avoid the politics in the matter as much as possible. With your full information as to the conditions here and elsewhere on the colored question, I believe that it will be possible for you to give her an article or an interview that will not involve the political side of the matter.
Very truly yours,
J. E. Ralph
Director.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins,
Washington, D. C.
As you advised me in your letter of the 25th instant, Miss Nerney, of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People, wrote me asking for my views on the policy of segregating the colored employes, and I have today addressed her a letter, of which I enclose a copy for your information.
I also forward for your information a copy of a letter which I have today written to Mr. Williams, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, with whom I discussed Miss Nerney's letter, and who incidentally asked your connection with the matter.
As you will note from my answer to Miss Nerney, I have suggested that she obtain your views on the subject, and I would suggest that you give her your views strictly from the welfare point of view and avoid the politics in the matter as much as possible. With your full information as to the conditions here and elsewhere on the colored question, I believe that it will be possible for you to give her an article or an interview that will not involve the political side of the matter.
Very truly yours,
J. E. Ralph
Director.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins,
Washington, D. C.
Original Format
Letter
To
Hopkins, Charlotte Everett
Files
Collection
Citation
Ralph, Joseph E., 1863-1922, “JE Ralph to Charlotte Everett Hopkins,” 1913 July 29, SE072913, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.