Source: Booker T. Washington, “My View of Segregation Laws,” New Republic 5, no. 57 (December 4, 1915), 113–114; available at https://newrepublic.com/article/103513/ my-view-segregation-laws. In all of my experience I have never
Source: Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1900), 218–25; available at https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/washington/washing.html. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens: One-third of the
Source: Booker T. Washington, Cotton States Exposition, Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection, and Susan B. Anthony Collection. Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama,
In the Bible one finds over and over again the words “a peculiar people.” Reference is made to the Jews as “a peculiar people;”—a people differing in thought and temperament
Ladies and Gentlemen: We stand tonight on historic ground. Charleston and South Carolina have made history — history that will always occupy a prominent place in the annals of our
Few, if any, occasions within the past thirty years have meant more to the Negro race than that which calls us here. The Negro has been a laborer in this
IF I were asked the simple, direct question, “Does the negro in America have a fair chance?” it would be easy to answer simply, “No,” and then refer to instances
The political, educational, social and economic evolution through which the South passed during, say, the first fifteen or twenty years after the close of the Civil War, furnished one of
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Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentleman: I cannot bring myself to feel that I am worthy of speaking to the members of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on the occasion
