Booker T. Washington
Person on 2 sites
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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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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25 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Industrial education is needed to give Black Americans a foundation of civilisation to grow on (opens korrents.com)
“This 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…”
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A fair property and education voting test right after the Civil War would likely have been better for all (opens korrents.com)
“I 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…”
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The South's ignorance, poverty and crime are the whole nation's (opens korrents.com)
“Therefore, when the South is ignorant, the North is ignorant; when the South is poor, the North is poor; when the South commits crime, the nation commits crime.”
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Industrial education is needed to give Black Americans a foundation of civilisation to grow on (opens korrents.com)