Emmett J. Scott to TM Campbell
Title
Emmett J. Scott to TM Campbell
Creator
Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957
Identifier
PI060618
Date
1918 June 6
Description
African American farmers of the South who are cooperating with the US Saturday Service League are providing a great service.
Source
National Archives and Records Administration 130/68/3/00 box #3 entry #5 "Negroes" folder
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Language
English
Text
U. S. SATURDAY SERVICE LEAGUE
WIN THE WAR BY WORKING SIX DAYS PER WEEK
(COPY)
WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON.
Mr. TM Campbell,
District Agent, Cooperative Extension Work,
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
My dear Mr. Campbell:
I am greatly interested in the campaign which you are carrying on to get the Negro farmers of the South to work six days per week. I am wondering whether the Negro farmers who are so heartily co-operating with you fully appreciate the great service that they are rendering the nation by this co-operation?
The winning of this war depends just as much upon the Negro farmer, who, in the South, works his best and raises all the food stuffs he can, as it does upon the soldiers who are fighting in France. For, although it may not be generally known by the Negro farmers of the South, yet it is true that practically every bit of food that our soldiers in Europe use has to be sent from America.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Emmett J. Scott
Special Assistant
War Department.
Released by
TM Campbell, District Agent,
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
WIN THE WAR BY WORKING SIX DAYS PER WEEK
(COPY)
WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON.
Mr. TM Campbell,
District Agent, Cooperative Extension Work,
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
My dear Mr. Campbell:
I am greatly interested in the campaign which you are carrying on to get the Negro farmers of the South to work six days per week. I am wondering whether the Negro farmers who are so heartily co-operating with you fully appreciate the great service that they are rendering the nation by this co-operation?
The winning of this war depends just as much upon the Negro farmer, who, in the South, works his best and raises all the food stuffs he can, as it does upon the soldiers who are fighting in France. For, although it may not be generally known by the Negro farmers of the South, yet it is true that practically every bit of food that our soldiers in Europe use has to be sent from America.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) Emmett J. Scott
Special Assistant
War Department.
Released by
TM Campbell, District Agent,
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
Original Format
Letter
To
Campbell, Thomas M. (Thomas Monroe), 1883-1956
Files
Collection
Citation
Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957, “Emmett J. Scott to TM Campbell,” 1918 June 6, PI060618, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.