Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi

Illustrations

Black workers in a cotton field near Greenville, Mississippi, ca. 1897. J. C. Coovert Collection . Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Cartoon by L. C. Gregg that appeared in the Atlanta Constitution shortly after President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House. A caption under the cartoon read, “An amusing book, ‘My Negro Policy!’” Sullivan, Pre-War America, 134. Portrait of Walter F. Willcox by Prince of Washington, D.C., ca. 1910. Walter F. Willcox Collection, #14/10/821, box 6, folder 14 [platinum print]. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. A white cotton grower weighing the day’s labor of his black workers. Cotton Picking Photograph Collection. Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Two men poisoning a cotton field in Claiborne County, Mississippi, in 1910 to kill boll weevils. Allen (Leigh Briscoe) Photograph Collection. Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Although the boll weevil was resistant to conventional pesticides, calcium arsenate (now known to be a human carcinogen) applied as a powder to cotton shoots was found to be reasonably effective. W. E. B. Du Bois, 1904. Digital ID: cph 3a29260, Prints and Photographs Division , Library of Congress. Postcard of high water at the Dunleith train station on the Greenville, Columbus, and Birmingham Railroad during the 1912 flood. Greenville, Mississippi, Photograph Collection . Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Booker T. Washington, ca. 1890–1910. Digital ID: cph 3c19898, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. ...