Booker T. Washington: “Who were the more to be pitied—these innocent victims of an ancient wrong, or I and men like me, who had inherited the…”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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…

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.