Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an influential black intellectual and educator. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute for Colored Teachers.
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The Case of the Negro
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The Awakening of the Negro
An educator’s controversial argument contends that blacks should advance by making themselves useful to whites.
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Bettman / Getty The Negro and the Labor Unions
“Shall the labor unions use their influence to deprive the black man of his opportunity to labor… [or] unite with those who want to give every man, regardless of color, race or creed, what Colonel Roosevelt calls the ‘square deal’ in the matters of labor?”
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‘The Present South’
Review of Problems of the Present South by Edgar Gardner Murphy
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The Fruits of Industrial Training
“Slavery presented a problem of destruction; freedom presents a problem of construction.”
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Library of Congress The Awakening of the Negro
“It is through the dairy farm, the truck garden, the trades, and commercial life, largely, that the negro is to find his way to the enjoyment of all his rights.”
