Walter Francis White to Jane Addams, August 29, 1925

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
69 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

August 29, 1925. 

Miss Jane Addams,
Hull House,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Miss Addams:

I am sending you enclosed a copy of a letter I have just written to Mr. Charles F. D. Belden, President of the American Library Association, relative to the opening of a segregated school at Hampton Institute for the training of colored librarians. This letter is self-explanatory. 

We are also writing a letter to Mr. Frederick P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation, at 522 Fifth Avenue, New York City, to the same effect. 

I am asking you to be good enough to write a letter to Mr. Belden and also one to Mr. Keppel if you feel so disposed and agree with us that there should not be established such a segregated school. As the plans have hitherto not been made public it will be necessary that such a letter be written at the earliest possible time in order to be effective. 

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Yours very sincerely,

Walter White [signed]
Assistant Secretary.