"An Address Delivered Before the National Colored Teachers' Association"
Speech
By: Booker T. Washington
Date: 1911
Source: Washington, Booker T. An Address Delivered Before the National Colored Teachers' Association, 1911. Reprinted in Davidson, Washington E., ed. Selected Speeches of Booker T. Washington. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1932, 200–207.
About the Author: Booker Taliafero Washington (1856–1915) was born into slavery and worked his way through the Hampton Institute as the school's janitor. Washington taught at the Hampton Institute, and then founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881, which would become one of the foremost schools for African Americans. He was a prominent African American leader, speaker, and author. His autobiography, Up From Slavery, was influential worldwide.
Introduction
After the Civil War (1861–1865) and the end of slavery, the period of reconstruction in the South...
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