What Booker T. Washington thinks about government
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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1 dated position, 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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Their wordsThe individual or race that owns the property, pays the taxes, possesses the intelligence and substantial character, is the one which is going to exercise the greatest control in government, whether he lives in the North or whether he lives in the South.
↗The Future of the American Negro (1899)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book