Speech

By: Walter H. Page

Date: June 1897

Source: Page, Walter H. "The Forgotten Man" speech. Reprinted in Page, Walter H. The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths: Being Essays Towards the Training of the Forgotten Man in the Southern States. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902, 1–3, 22–35, 47.

About the Author: Walter Hines Page (1855–1918), journalist, author, and diplomat, was born in North Carolina and graduated from Randolph-Macon College. He ran the Raleigh State Chronicle from 1883 to 1887. He left to join The Forum, a New York monthly magazine that he made a great success. In 1899, Page became a partner in the Doubleday, Page and Company publishing house and founded the World's Work magazine in 1900. He was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1913.

Introduction

Historically, educational development in the South had...