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Booker Washington speaks at court house on race progress
The occasion features Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University, delivering a major address to a crowded audience. He urges practical education directed to industry, agriculture, and real estate, arguing that educated Black men must pursue trades and business to lift the race and improve opportunities, while urging better neighborly relations and self-reliance.
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Ala
Tuskegee University
Court House
W.G. Pearson
A. P. Eaton
Pherobe Ray
W. G. Pearson
J BE. Shepherd
Washington
America
Unian
France
Sandwich Islands
Comand
Indiana
Alabama
Lindley Vinton
New York
Durham
Booker T. Washington
W. J. Crawford
North Carolina
Chas. C. Weaver
P.W. Anderson
John S. Cairns
W. K. Boyd
Conference of Southern
Knoxville
E. W. Hill
Trinity
A & M. College of Raleigh
Johnson
Capt
Breedlove
Nicholson
Daily
Flowers
Main
J. M
Card
Curtis
Crawford
Howland
Pohannon
R. B. Boone
Pearl Cotton Mill
Mr Boone
Mr. Boone