Booker T. Washington: “But in these homes there was a certain degree of order and convenience which made you feel as comfortable as if you were…”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.