history.

The incessant whining and propaganda of Southern bigots devoted
to the old regime naturally have an undue influence on
sympathetic listeners. I am afraid that this influence will not
be counteracted as it ought to be till Negro investigators,
historians and journalists learn to tell their side of the story
with greater thoroughness.

Very truly yours,
G. S. DICKERMAN.

NEW BEDFORD, MASS., MAY 15TH, 1916
Room 6, Robeson Bldg.

DR. CARTER G. WOODSON,
Washington, D. C.

_My Dear Sir:_

In reply to yours of the 8th, please find herewith a contribution
in the line of my suggestion to Mr. Baker. I did not mean to
imply I had much material of that nature, and what is sent is
that I could readily find, and would need to take time to go
through my papers to really know what I have. If you can use it
all right; if not, consign it to the waste basket, and no
complaint will be coming.

What I had more in mind was this: In many communities can be
found some one person who has contributed services of value to
race, none the less appreciable from the fact that their
interest and value seem circumscribed locally. That they are so
limited I do not believe, but think of each as the centre of an
ever widening, circling influence for good. To illustrate:

Paul Cuffee was born at Cuttyhunk, Mass., in 1758; was an early
defender of the rights of colored men; when the selectmen of the
Town of Dartmouth, refused to admit colored children to the
public schools, and to make separate provision for their
education, he refused to pay his school taxes, was imprisoned,
and when liberated, built a school house at his own expense, on
his own land, employed a teacher at his own expense, and then
opened his school _without_ race discrimination, a privilege
which his white neighbors availed themselves of as his school was
more convenient and equally as good as those of the town. The
result was colored children ceased to be proscribed along
educational lines. He was a ship owner, builder and export
trader. His story has been published at length, in one of our
dailies, with all the documents in t