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 * J. R. Levy on Committee to notify presidential nominee. W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * 1920—Chicago, Illinois, June 5-9.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * J. R. Levy on Committee to notify presidential nominee. W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * 1920—Chicago, Illinois, June 5-9.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.
 * W. S. Dixon on Committee to notify presidential nominee. I. J. McCottrie on Committee to notify vice-presidential nominee.

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