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Black-belt diamonds;

gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington ...

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

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I.

Heart of the Race

He must be Counted

The Negro's Mission

The Negro's Home

Obeying the Scriptures

The Negro originally Honest

Basis of Prejudice

Talk versus Action

Mutual Dependence

Education the Only Hope

Ignorance against Intelligence

Eagerness for Knowledge

"One Touch of Nature"

Ballot-Box and Schoolhouse

What the Negro Needs

Responsibility for Slavery

An Equal Chance

Phillips Brooks

Dishonest Voting

The Good Samaritans

Only Two Alternatives

Pagans no Longer

"Cast down your Bucket"

All Fools Alike

Business Opportunity

Our Mother Tongue

Equality of Opportunity

The South as the Field

Advice to White Men

He Learned to Labor

New Industrial Era

What Education Does

Fate of Laggards

Serious Mistakes

The One Drawback

Adaptability Needed

Heritage of Slavery

What Law cannot Do

Correct Education

How Life is Measured

Trained Head and Hand

The Acceptable Thing

The Old Washerwoman

The Fate of the Pauper

Where Profits Appear

What the World Desires

The Lyncher and the Lynched

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Pagans no Longer

We went into slavery in this country pagans;
we came out Christians. Our New Citizen.