Booker T. Washington: “I believe that those who go out and become farmers, and leaders in other directions, as well as teachers, are to…”

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

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

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…