THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO (Chapter 13) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
A Negro with sufficient thought to construct a program ... is undesirable, and the educational systems ... generally refuse to work through 'them' in promoting their cause. The program for the uplift of the Negroes ... must be handed over to an executive force , and they must carry it out .... Although the Negro is being ... forced ... by segregation into a world peculiarly his own, his ... perplexing status is given little or no thought, and he is not considered capable of thinking for himself.
THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO (Chapter 14) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
In theology, literature, social science, and education, however, radical reconstruction is necessary. The old worn-out theories as to man's relation to God and his fellowman, the system of thought which has permitted one man to exploit, oppress, and exterminate another and still be regarded as righteous must be discarded for the new thought of men as brethren and the idea of God as the lover of all mankind. ~Dr. Carter G. Woodson
THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO (Chapter 16) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Negroes, too, should undergo systematic training for those professions in which they have shown special aptitude as in the arts. They must not wait for the Americans to approve of their plunging into unknown spheres. The world is not circumscribed by the United States, and the Negro must become a pioneer in making use of a larger portion of the universe.
THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO (Chapter 17) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
To say that the Negro cannot develop ... in the business world to managers with present-day capitalists is to deny actual facts, refute history, and discredit the Negro as a ... competitor in the economic battle of life. No man knows what he can do until he tries. The Negro race has never tried to do very much for itself. The race has great possibilities. Properly awakened, the Negro can do the so-called impossible in the business world and thus help to govern rather than merely be governed.
THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO (Chapter 18) by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Dr. Woodson emphasizes again the importance of studying and knowing African American History. He explains how many Blacks “hate” their history, but are taught to respect others’ history.
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 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 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 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 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.