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Booker T. Washington

What Booker T. Washington thinks about education

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American educator, author and orator (1856 to 1915); the primary leader of the African-American community from 1890 to 1915; author of Up from Slavery.

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4 dated positions, c. 1899, in their own words. Our reading of what Booker T. Washington has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingIndustrial education is needed to give Black Americans a foundation of civilisation to grow on

    America

    Their wordsThis constitutes a part of the reason why I insist that it is necessary to emphasise the matter of industrial education as a means of giving the black man the foundation of a civilisation upon which he will grow and prosper.

    ↗The Future of the American Negro (1899)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book

  3. Our readingA fair property and education voting test right after the Civil War would likely have been better for all

    Their wordsI think it would have been better for all concerned if, immediately after the close of the war, an educational and property qualification for the exercise of the franchise had been prescribed that would have applied fairly and squarely to both races, and, also, if, in educating the Negro, greater stress had been put upon training him along the lines of industry for which his services were in the greatest demand in the South.

    ↗The Future of the American Negro (1899)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book

  5. Our readingAgricultural education should have come first since self-support is the first condition for lifting up a race

    Their wordsIt would have seemed that, since self-support, industrial independence, is the first condition for lifting up any race, that education in theoretical and practical agriculture, horticulture, dairying, and stock-raising, should have occupied the first place in our system.

    ↗The Future of the American Negro (1899)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book

  7. Our readingThe lasting cure for present evils lies in a property and education voting test applied honestly to both races

    Their wordsI believe the permanent cure for our present evils will come through a property and educational test for voting that shall apply honestly and fairly to both races.

    ↗The Future of the American Negro (1899)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book