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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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What the Negro is Doing

Remedy for Lynching

Commercial Slavery

"The Poor Whites"

From Foundation to Turret

These should be Reached

Tuskegee as a Missionary

Uses of Education

Practice and Teaching

Cancer at the Heart

Country Schools

Scientific Education

Standing Ground

Knows he is Down

No Progress without Friction

The Higher Virtues

Loyalty to Labor

Tested by Patience

Right will Conquer

Work for the Ministry

Can the White Man Accept?

Unreasonable Whims

"A Light Set upon a Hill"

"Injury to One, Injury to All"

Successful and Unsuccessful

Engine and Grammar

Light Penetrating

Which is the more Costly?

Make no Excuses

Treating Him as a Man

The Educated White Man

Living on Skimmed Milk

What the World Expects

Universal Brotherhood

Chickens from Miscellaneous Sources

This Man Half Free

Passing of the Whitewasher

Bootblacking as an Art

Wrongs of a Race

His Sainted Mother

The Crucial Test

Weakness Changed to Power

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Black-Belt Diamonds

Gems from the Speeches, Addresses,
and Talks to Students
OF
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Principal of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.

Selected and Arranged by VICTORIA EARLE MATTHEWS AUTHOR OF "AUNT LINDY," ETC. INTRODUCTION BY T. THOMAS FORTUNE

NEW YORK

FORTUNE AND SCOTT, Publishers
4 Cedar Street

© 1898