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November 13, 1914.

Dear Mr. President:-

I have read with sympathetic in-
terest the accounts in the Chicago newspapers of your
experience yesterday at the White House with William
M. Trotter. Perhaps, in view of this you would be
interested in an experience I had with the same man
last summer. In July I received an unpleasant
letter from him. He upraided me severely for my
"inducement for segregation" in Y.M.C.A.s, be-
cause I am trying to encourage the erection of
Y.M.C.A. buildings for Colored men and boys in
certain American cities. Undoubtedly Mr. Trotter
is a notoriety seeker, whose methods are dismay-
ing to the conservative members of his race.

With kind regards, I am,

Sincerely yours,
Julius Rosenwald

Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States,
Washington, D.C.

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