Booker T. Washington: “You can get the most out of this Conference by putting into practice this effort to make other people happy.”

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.