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.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 12) by Booker T. Washington
If the institution had been officered by white persons, and had failed, it would have injured the cause of Negro education; but I knew that the failure of our institution, officered by Negroes, would not only mean the loss of a school, but would cause people, in a large degree, to lose faith in the ability of the entire race. The receipt of this draft for ten thousand dollars, under all these circumstances, partially lifted a burden that had been pressing down upon me for days.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 11) by Booker T. Washington
He cherished no bitterness against the South.... In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South. ...great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 10) by Booker T. Washington
My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found. I have found, too, that it is the visible, the tangible, that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build. --Booker T. Washington
Unit 1 Civil War #1
American History 7/8
Timeline of Events 1788 - 1789
Place the following events in order.
The-Mis-education-Of-The-Negro (chapter 9) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Having the stamp of science, the thought of these polemics was accepted in all seats of learning. These rewriters of history fearlessly contended that slavery was a benevolent institution: the masters loved their slaves and treated them humanely; the abolitionists meddled with the institution which the masters would have eventually modified: the Civil War brought about by "fanatics" like William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown was unnecessary; ..." Dr. Carter G. Woodson
The-Mis-education-Of-The-Negro (chapter 3) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
You might study the history as it was offered in our system from the elementary school throughout the university, and you would never hear Africa mentioned except in the negative. You would never thereby learn that Africans first domesticated the sheep, goat, and cow. developed the idea of trial by jury, produced the first string instruments, and gave the world it's greatest boon in the discovery of Iron.
The Neolithic Age
Put the following events from the Neolithic Age in order. Think about cause and effect as you work.
The Miseducation of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Blacks of his (Dr. Carter G Woodson) day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools.