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273 1. Dunbar Rowland, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917 (Madison, WI: Democrat Publishing, 1917), 942–43. The typescript for this sketch with Stone’s proof corrections can be found in his subject file at MDAH. 2. Stone to Willcox, January 10, 1902, WFWP. 3. “Booker T. Washington,” Greenville Times, September 22, 1900. The last of these editorials appeared on May 11, 1901. Appendix A VERIFICATION OF STONE’S AUTHORSHIP OF EDITORIALS IN THE GREENVILLE TIMES Editorials in the Greenville Times at the turn of the twentieth century were not signed, and Stone’s name does not appear on the masthead during the period of his editorship. Nevertheless, there is compelling evidence to suggest that he wrote most of the editorials that appeared in the Greenville Times during the latter part of 1900 and first part of 1901. To start, Stone claimed on several occasions that he served as editor of the Greenville Times. For example, the biographical sketch that he wrote for himself in The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Centennial Edition, 1917 states that “from June, 1900, to June, 1901, he [Stone] edited the Greenville Times.1 On January 10, 1902, Stone told Willcox that “For a year I was editor of the Greenville Times,—giving up the place a few months since, in order to be able to devote all my leisure time to the work above referred to.”2 The editor of the Greenville Times in 1900 was H. T. Crosby. The masthead read “H. T. Crosby, Editor and M’gr.” through the August 25 issue of that year. However, the masthead was altered in the next issue (September 2) to read “H. T. Crosby . . . Business Manager.” Apparently, Stone assumed his editorial duties around this time. Regardless of the actual date, the first of nine editorials concerning the race problem that can be attributed to Stone appeared on September 22.3 274 APPENDIX A 4. “Education as a Solution,” Greenville Times, February 9, 1901. 5. Walter F. Willcox, “Negro Criminality,” in SARP 443–75. A version of the quotation “within sight of Bunker Hill” appears on page 443. 6. “A Lame Conclusion,” Greenville Times, November 3, 1900; emphasis added. 7. “The Mulatto Factor in the Race Problem,” Atlantic Monthly 91 (May 1903): 658–62; reprinted in SARP, 425–39. The quotation is from page 431 in the book (emphasis added). The evidence linking the authorship of these editorials to Stone is both circumstantial and substantive. Many of the circumstantial connections are noted in the text. However, one of the most convincing is the reference to Walter F. Willcox in an editorial that appeared on February 9, 1901. “One of the most careful students of negro criminality is Dr. W. F. Willcox, of Cornell University,” it reads. “He cannot be accused of prejudice, for, as he says of himself, he was born and reared ‘within the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument .’”4 The quotation in the editorial is from a footnote to an article entitled “Negro Criminality” from the American Journal of Social Sciences. Seven years later Stone reprinted the article, with the footnote, as a chapter in Studies in the American Race Problem.5 Willcox may have been well connected in academic circles, but it doubtful that his work was well known in the Mississippi Delta prior to his association with Stone. There is also substantive evidence to verify Stone’s authorship of these editorials. For example, on November 3, 1900, an editorial was published in the Greenville Times that read as follows: “A combination of Spanish and Indian produces the mestizo, who, while combining some of the mental and physical characteristics of both parents, belongs, ethnologically speaking, properly to the race of neither.”6 Three years later, Stone wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly that contained this language: “Just as the crossing of the Spaniard upon the Indian has given us the mestizo of Central American and Mexico, so the blending of white and Negro blood has given us a type which combines some of the racial characteristics—good and bad—of both its progenitors .”7 Another example of parallel composition can be found in an editorial published on December 1, 1900: Taking the New York Age, edited by T. Thomas Fortune, and the Colored American, of Washington, edited by Edward E. Cooper, as types of the highest development of the negro paper, we fail to see how the most enthusiastic believer in...

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