Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus! (Sundquist, 512)
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REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D. D.
PRESIDENT
Atlanta University
REV. MYRON W. ADAMS, Ph. D.
DEAN
Atlanta, Ga., March 11, 1907.
Miss M. B. Marston,
420 S. Main St.,
Wichita, Kans.
My dear Madam: –
I thank you for your letter without date. I have given a wrong impression in my book if I have led people to believe that I want the colored people to have simply equality with other people – what I have tried to ask for is justice, treatment according to desert and I have tried to put especial emphasis upon this. I want the colored people to have the right to develop according to their capacity and I certainly would be disappointed if they did not develop much higher things than the white race has developed to. I sympathize too with the women in their struggle for emancipation. I believe in full rights for human beings without distinction of race or sex. At the same time I hesitate to say anything concerning women’s rights because most women in the United States are so narrow that anything I should say would be misinterpreted. The Negro race has suffered more from the antipathy ans narrowness of women both South and North than from any other single source. While then I should be very glad to say any word which I was sure would help, I do not at present see that there is much chance for me to help in your cause. I wish it however, the greatest success.
Very sincerely yours,
[no signature]
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Miss M. B. Marston, March 11, 1907. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b003-i318.