1900's Education | "Industrial Education for the Negro"

Nonfiction work

By: Booker T. Washington

Date: September 1903

Source: Washington, Booker T. "Industrial Education for the Negro." In The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of Today. New York: J. Pott, 1903, 9–19, 28–29. Available online at http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/wash_b04.htm; website home page: http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu (accessed April 5, 2003).

About the Author: Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856–1915), educator, speaker, author, and prominent black leader, was born a slave in Virginia. He worked his way through the Hampton Institute and later taught there before, in 1881, founding the Tuskegee Institute, which became one of the leading schools for African Americans. Washington's autobiography, Up From...