The Future Of The American Negro
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The Future of the American Negro
Future of the American Negro, by Booker T. Washington
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Title: The Future of the American Negro
Author: Booker T. Washington
Release Date: September 2, 2008 [EBook #26507]
Language: English
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THE FUTURE OF
THE AMERICAN NEGRO
Booker T. Washington
Boston Small, Maynard & Company 1900
Copyright, 1899, By Small, Maynard & Company (Incorporated)
Entered at Stationers' Hall
First Edition (2,000 copies), November, 1899 Second Edition (2,000 copies), February, 1900
Press of George H. Ellis, Boston, U.S.A.
[Illustration: Booker T. Washington.]
PREFACE.
In giving this volume to the public, I deem it fair to say that I have yielded to the oft-repeated requests that I put in some more definite and permanent form the ideas regarding the Negro and his future which I have expressed many times on the public platform and through the public press and magazines.
I make grateful acknowledgment to the "Atlantic Monthly" and "Appleton's Popular Science Monthly" for their kindness in granting permission for the use of some part of articles which I have at various times contributed to their columns.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, TUSKEGEE, ALA., October 1, 1899.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
Page 3
First appearance of Negroes in America--Rapid increase--Conditions during Civil War--During the reconstruction.
Chapter II.
Page 16
Responsibility of the whole country for the Negro--Progress in the past--Same methods of education do not fit all cases--Proved in the case of the Southern Negro--Illustrations--Lack of money--Comparison between outlay for schools North and South--Duty of North to South.
Chapter III.
Page 42
Decadence of Southern plantation--Demoralization of Negroes natural--No home life before the war--Too much classical education at the start--Lack of practical training-- Illustrations--The well-trained slaves now dead--Former plantations as industrial schools--The decayed plantation built up by a former slave--Misunderstanding of industrial education.
Chapter IV.
Page 67
The Negroes' proper use of education--Hayti, Santo Domingo, and Liberia as illustrations of the lack of practical training-- Present necessity for union of all forces to further the cause of industrial education--Industrial education not opposed to the higher education--Results of practical training so far--Little or no prejudice against capable Negroes in business in the South--The Negro at first shunned labor as degrading-- Hampton and Tuskegee aim to remove this feeling--The South does not oppose industrial education for the Negroes-- Address to Tuskegee students setting forth the necessity of steadfastness of purpose.
Chapter V.
Publisher | Anders Lewis Publishing Inc |
Binding | Kindle Edition (38 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B0050QIFI8 |
Publication Date | 01/08/1899 |
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