Booker T. Washington: “I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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.