THOMAS E. WATSON PAPERS, #755, 1863-1988
Business and professional papers of Watson of Thomson, Georgia, a lawyer, Populist Party
candidate for U.S. vice-president in 1896 and for president in 1904 and 1908, senator,
author, and newspaper and journal publisher. Included are Watson's attack on President Grover
Cleveland for refusing to dine with Booker T. Washington (1904) and letters of support and
defamation of Watson's editorials on race, which reflect his initial support of the inclusion
of blacks in the agrarian movement and his later shift to black disenfranchisement
(1905-1907). Also included are letters of praise from the Ku Klux Klan (1921). Microfilm
available.