One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

It was extremely successful. A dormitory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is named in honor of Baker but using his pen name David Grayson. A nearby dormitory Baker Hall is named after his brother Hugh Potter Baker who was the president of Massachusetts State College that later became the University of Massachusetts.