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 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 3) by Booker T. Washington
'I swept the recitation-room three times. Then I got a dusting-cloth and dusted it four times. All the woodwork around the walls, every bench, table, and desk, I went over four times with my dusting-cloth. .....I reported to the head teacher. She was a "Yankee" woman who knew just where to look for dirt. ... When she was unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture, she ... remarked, "I guess you will do to enter this institution." -B. T. Washington
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 8) by Booker T. Washington
All these ideas and needs crowded themselves upon us with a seriousness that seemed well-nigh overwhelming...We had only the little old shanty and the abandoned church which the good coloured people of the town of Tuskegee had kindly loaned us for the accommodation of the classes. ... we saw that our efforts were reaching, to only a partial degree, the actual needs of the people whom we wanted to lift up through the medium of the students whom we should educate and send out as leaders.
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 (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
Meet the members of the new and upcoming band, The Prepositions. Prepositions are words that we use everyday, but we use them to describe a location, time or place. Select the preposition that best fits the sentence to unlock new members of the band!
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 9) by Booker T. Washington
As soon as the plans were drawn for the new building, the students began digging out the earth where the foundations were to be laid, working after the regular classes were over... I noted with satisfaction that a sentiment in favour of work was gaining ground. After a few weeks of hard work the foundations were ready, and a day was appointed for the laying of the corner-stone.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 15) by Booker T. Washington
He pictured the Negro choosing slavery rather than extinction; recalled Crispus Attucks shedding his blood at the beginning of the American Revolution, that white Americans might be free, while black Americans remained in slavery; --Booker T. Washington
Answer correctly as much as you can in order for you to reach the honey pot. Click on the spin button on top right each time you finished answering a question.
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 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 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.