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SHAW UNIVERSITY
FOUNDED 1865

Raleigh, N.C.,
July 1, 1919.

His Excellency,
The Governor of North Carolina.

Dear Sir:

The Faculty and students of the Shaw University Summer School wish to thank you heartily for your strong words of disapproval with reference to the movement for the establishment of the order of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. We appreciate the high stand you have taken in a metter that so vitally concerns our state and nation.

Signed: Chas. R. Frazer
Director of Summer School

W. S. Turner
Mrs. H. L. McCrorey
J. H. Bias
Mrs Hattie W. Rainer1
Committee.

1. This committee member is most likely Hattie Rainer of Goldsboro, North Carolina. In the 1920 census, she is listed as a teacher.