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(EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Three pages of typed notes
for a speech, with copious penciled holograph notations.
Three small 8vo pages,
taken from a notebook (8
3
/
8
x 5
3
/
8
inches); light wear. Creases where folded.
Np [Tuskegee?], circa 1900-1910
[3,500/5,000]
Notes for a speech with a tantalizing list of hot-button topics, outlined in Washington’s typical style.
To the left margin are the typed topics, underlined in red pencil, with broader notes off to the right.
Then, scrawled across the latter, also in typical BTW style are his notes. Example: “Lynchings.
Races.” (underlined in red) Then, typed to the right—“Race Relations Hear of the Worst. Hatred
and Ignorance. No difference between best classes of races. Less lynching.” Another: “Needs of
Tuskegee. Race Pride.” To the right in pencil “Business Serious.” And typed, “Not discouraged,”
“Crab Apples,” “Stormy Billows,” beneath in pencil “Red Flag.” He would have his main talking
points fixed, with sub-topics to the right. The added notes apparently came to him at the last minute.
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(EDUCATION.) PENN, GARLAND.
Souvenir of the Negro Young
People’s Christian and Educational Congress.
Illustrations, music, biographical
sketches and advertising for schools, fraternal associations, etc. 4to, original wrappers, some
wear and chips to the covers.
Washington, D.C., 1906
[300/400]
A scarce little booklet aimed at the young people who would have just graduated from high school.
Includes long explanations of the bona fides of the faculty of everything from the True Reformers to
Maggie Walker’s Richmond Penny Bank. Only one copy located by OCLC.
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(EDUCATION—WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.)
The Negro and the
“Solid South” . . . Being Comments on “The Basis for Ascendancy” by Edgar
Gardner Murphy.
12 pages. Tall 8vo, original printed stiff paper wrappers; paper and
cover toned, the wrapper with a diagonal chip at the bottom edge.
Cheyney, PA: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the
Interests of the Colored Race, [1909]
[300/400]
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION
,
FIRST APPEARING IN THE PAGES OF THE
“
INDEPENDENT
.”
Washington talks of his recent trip through the South and expressed his pleasure with what he saw as
a growing number of young white men who were in favor of the “ascendancy” of the Negro in the
South. Given the time (1909) and what had been happening in the South, one might think
Washington was living in an alternate universe.
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