The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-04-21
NEGRO TEACH
ERS OF ALABAMA
HOLD ANNUAL SESSION
In HUNTSVILLE.
Delegates from all
Parts Present.


isTRoNG ENDORSEMENT OF
BOOKER T. WAsHINGToN-oLD-
EST WHITE MERCHANT IN
| HUNTSVILLE SPEAKS OUT FOB
HlM-AssEMBLAGE CHEER THE
NAME TO THE ECHO MANY
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED = PRES.
BUCHANAN ADDRESSES THEM.
Special to the Globe.
Huntsville, Ala, April 13.-When
the thirteenth annual session OF the
Alabama State Teachers Association
was called to present order yester-
day, there were more than f1ve hun
dred teachers coming from every
ely, county, and district in Alabama.
The state has more than three thou
sand instructors who will be repre-
sented in the meeting. Most of the
delegates reached the city last even
ing by special train which came in
from Birmingham by way of Deca-
tur Among those prominent in the
delegation were the presidents or
some of the leading institutions in
the entire state, especially is this
true with respect to the high schools
: in Montgomery, Mobile, Sema and
: Decature. The association is being
, royalty entertained by the people or
Huntsville, At the meeting last
night a ringing endorsement of
) Booker T. Washington was expressed
| by Mr.. R. E. Pettus, a wholesale mer-
chant of Huntsville and equally
!, prominent in church cirrles, and also
{ by the whole audience OF more tnan
2 1000 people, at the instance of DR..
l James A. Bray, President of Miles
: Memorial College. Mr.. Pettus said,
! 81 do not believe any of the stories
2 circulated about Booker Washington.
t Continuing, he declared that he
: believed Booker T. Washington had
too much sense, was too honest and
t upright to insult a woman IN New
York anywhere else. when a slave,
he was listed at $4O0 now his worth
to humanity cannot be estimated, and
| am one white man In Alabama who
does not only believe anything deroga-
tory to Dr. Washington, but | shall
never send one cent or my money
anywhere to help defend a man VINO
stands up against such fellow-citi-
zen as Booker T. Washington"
DR.. James A. Bray, President CT
Miles Memorial College, who delivere]
the response to the welcome addresses
offered the following resolution:
1--WE have heard with sorrow an
regret the sad occurrence of the at
tack upon Dr. Booker T. Washington
by Albert Ulrich of New York. W.
regard DR.. Washington as one OF tn
| foremost citizens of America, worthy
4 of the highest confidence of the whole
II PEOPLE of all races. Therefore, in OF
\ der that our fellow citizens and fe!
/ low race members may know the be&
II of the heart of Alabama's teachers
II and their estimate of their mos
II distinguished fellow-teacher, VIII
II is an ex-president of this association
Il we do declare our unswerving con
II fdence in the integrity, nobility an
honor of DR.. Booker T. Washingto;
and assure him that we believe n
- aspersions cast upon his characto
er and record by any statement of hi
R. assailants."
}; DR.. Bray declared in his addres
S. that the Negro teacher was far
}; the lead of all professional and bus
b. ness men of his race and pointed
the tremendous responsibility resi-
ing upon them. mo factor in th
solution of the race problem count
I fer more than the influence of tn
y Negro teacher" said he. "Thi
=: government is due the Negro teache
% ~ a great debt He does more to pre-
70 mote harmonious feeling betwee
" - the races than he is given credit for
- he is the most self-sacrificing elias
~ - of the race. They do not make none!
~ but they teach others how to do So
In seconding the address made b
ts DR.. Bray and the resolutions whic
a. he introduced, Prof R. B. Hudson,
n Selma, Ala declared that it wf
ne fitting that at the opening session, b.
al fore the convention got into bushes
Sc actively, that ringing endorseme1
of DR.. Washington and an expressic
of of confidence in him should be mac
is by the Association.
Other addresses of welcome wei