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Education and public schools in the South urged by Booker T. Washington
In this 1902 reflection, Booker T. Washington advocates training the Negro to farm and master agriculture, urging education for all Southerners and warning against urban migration. The piece stresses women’s roles in schools, library access, and community support, with notes on Pinehurst and current book releases about plantation legends and African American life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booker ‘T. Washington
North
Hampton and
Tuskegee
South
Martha Young
Eli Sheppard
R. H. Russell
New York
Menee
J. M. Conde