US History: The Early Republic #1
Major events of Washington's administration through Jefferson's administration. Put these events in sequence.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Intro, Chapter 1) by Booker T. Washington
This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. -Booker T. Washington
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 7) by Booker T. Washington
I reached Tuskegee, as I have said, early in June, 1881. The first month I spent in finding accommodations for the school, and in travelling through Alabama, examining ... the ... life of the people, ... I ate and slept with the people, in their little cabins. I saw their farms, their schools, their churches. Since, in ... most of these visits, there had been no notice given in advance that a stranger was expected, I had the advantage of seeing the real, everyday life of the people.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 6) by Booker T. Washington
I ... wondered if there was a white institution in this country whose students would have welcomed the incoming of more than a hundred companions of another race in the ... way that these black students at Hampton welcomed the red ones. How often I have wanted to say to white students that they lift themselves up in proportion as they help to lift others, and the more unfortunate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one's self by giving the assistance.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 5) by Booker T. Washington
At Hampton it was a standing rule that, while the institution would be responsible for securing some one to pay the tuition for the students, the men and women themselves must provide for their own board, books, clothing, and room wholly by work, or partly by work and partly in cash. ... At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character-building.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 2) by Booker T. Washington
This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race. Few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of the intense desire which the people of my race showed for an education. As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 17) by Booker T. Washington
During the next half-century and more, my race must continue passing through the severe American crucible. We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; in our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 16) by Booker T. Washington
I had been born and largely reared in the lowest depths of slavery, ignorance, and poverty. In my childhood I had suffered for want of a place to sleep, for lack of food, clothing, and shelter. ... Luxuries had always seemed to me to be something meant for white people, not for my race. I had always regarded Europe, and London, and Paris, much as I regarded heaven. And now could it be that I was actually going to Europe? Such thoughts as these were constantly with me.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 14) by Booker T. Washington
One association even appointed a "missionary" whose duty it was to warn the people against sending their children to Tuskegee. This missionary had a son in the school, and I noticed that, whatever the "missionary" might have said or done with regard to others, he was careful not to take his son away from the institution. Many of the coloured papers, especially those that were the organs of religious bodies, joined in the general chorus of condemnation or demands for retraction.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 13) by Booker T. Washington
I remembered that I had been a slave; that my early years had been spent in the lowest depths of poverty and ignorance, and that I had had little opportunity to prepare me for such a responsibility as this. It was only a few years before that time that any white man in the audience might have claimed me as his slave; and it was easily possible that some of my former owners might be present to hear me speak.