A Sunday Evening Talk
UNIMPROVED OPPORTUNITIES There are several things I shall say to you to-night, which may not sound very agreeable or encouraging to many of you, yet you will agree with me […]
The Struggle for an Education
ONE day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the first time […]
Letter from Booker T. Washington to J. R. Barlow (1911)
My dear Mr. Barlow: Thank you again for your kind letter of January [February] 9th. I am glad that you received the papers and the picture. I shall be interested […]
Industrial Education for the Negro
Washington, Booker T. “Industrial Education for the Negro,” The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of To-Day. (New York: James Pott & Co., 1903). pg. 9-28. https://archive.org/details/cu31924073631339/page/n18/mode/1up?view=theater […]
Democracy and Education
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is said that the strongest chain is no stronger than its weakest link. In the Southern part of our country there are twenty-two millions […]
Up from Slavery
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION, at which I had been asked to make an address as a representative of the Negro race, as stated in the last chapter, was opened with a […]