Booker T. Washington: “On the contrary, the South was given credit for all the praiseworthy things that it had done.”

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

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

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