6th District--I. J. McCottrie.
7th District--L. A. Hawkins.
W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee.
I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential
nominee.

HENRY A. WALLACE.

140 COTTAGE STREET, NEW HAVEN, CONN., June 26, 1922.

DR. CARTER G. WOODSON,
1216 You Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

_My dear Dr. Woodson:_

Your studies in the history of the Negro people have greatly
impressed me with their value and I trust that they will be
continued in the many fields which call for new and careful
investigation. I think there is especial need for exact and
detailed information about the period of "reconstruction" in the
South. Reviewing in my memory the whole period since the civil
war I find a great change in prevalent opinion in the North
concerning the events of the reconstruction. It seems to me that
the champions of secession, of slavery and the southern
oligarchy, have been heard in justification of everything they
did and in arraignment of everything that defeated their designs
with an unsuspicious confidence that has enabled them to mislead
sentiment in the North, especially among the younger people. For
example: a Yale professor of history had an article in the New
York Times, a while ago, declaring that the constitutional
amendments conferring citizenship on the Negroes were wrong and
that the reaction against them in depriving the Negroes of the
vote was justifiable; to which I wrote a reply, mostly in the
language of Mr. Flemming, a native Southerner who had represented
Georgia in Congress, arguing that the amendments were not only
justifiable but indispensable, and the Times would not publish
it, so that I had to give it to the Post. There is a prevalent
opinion that the "carpet baggers" were a sort of monsters. I have
known some of them as estimable men and practical public spirited
citizens of a very high type: Judge Henderson of Wilcox County,
Ala. for example.

Now if you can go to the roots of history in this period and
investigate the facts, with biographical sketches of leading men
as they actually were and authentic records of things that were
actually done, it might help to clarify