Booker T. Washington: “Some people get the idea that if they can get a little education, and a little money ahead, and can talk so that no one…”

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…

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

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