Booker T. Washington: “I believe that every effort that we are obliged to make to overcome obstacles will give us strength, will give us a…”

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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

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…

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…