Address Delivered at Hampton Institute
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 […]
“Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?”
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 Fruits of Industrial Training”
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 […]
The Educational Outlook in the South
Fourteen years ago it is said that Northern teachers, in the South for the purpose of teaching in colored schools, were frightened away by the whites from the town of […]
The Educational and Industrial Emancipation of the Negro
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 […]
An Address on Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: You ask that which he found a piece of property and turned into a free American citizen to speak to you tonight on Abraham Lincoln. […]
An Abraham Lincoln Memorial Address in Philadelphia
Gentlemen: You ask one whom the Great Emancipator found a piece of property and left an American citizen to speak of Abraham Lincoln. My first acquaintance with our hero and […]
The Problem of the South
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 […]
A Speech at the Unveiling of the Robert Gould Shaw Monument
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens: In this presence, and on this sacred and memorable day, in the deeds and death of our hero, we recall the old, old story, ever old, […]
The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob
It makes a great deal of difference in the life of a race, as it does in the life of an individual, whether the world expects much or little of […]