Booker T. Washington: “In fact, the greater part of the education I secured in my boyhood was gathered through the night-school after my day’s…”

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

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