Booker T. Washington: “They would then be in a position to return home and assist in developing the agricultural and mineral resources of their…”

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.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…