Virginian in 1909--Tour

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 17, 1909

WILL BEGIN TOUR OF VIRGINIAN MONDAY
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Booker T. Washington to Investigate Conditions of Negro Race Along Rogers' Railroad

    Norfolk, Va., June 16--Booker T. Washington, the negro [sic] educator, carrying out the plans of the late H. H. Rogers, will on Monday next begin a tour of the Virginian Railway, speaking and investigating the conditions of the negro race along that system from Norfolk to Deepwater, W. Va., a distance of over 440 miles.  Washington will travel by a special train provided by the Virginian Railway.  He will speak first to white people in Norfolk and next to negroes at Pine Beach, who will tender him a banquet there.
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Gordon Hamilton
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