Industrial Education for the Negro
Industrial Education for the Negro

Author: Booker T. Washington

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2013-04-27

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781484835456

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One of the most fundamental and far-reaching deeds that has been accomplished during the last quarter of a century has been that by which the Negro has been helped to find himself and to learn the secrets of civilization—to learn that there are a few simple, cardinal principles upon which a race must start its upward course, unless it would fail, and its last estate be worse than its first.It has been necessary for the Negro to learn the difference between being worked and working—to learn that being worked meant degradation, while working means civilization; that all forms of labor are honorable, and all forms of idleness disgraceful. It has been necessary for him to learn that all races that have got upon their feet have done so largely by laying an economic foundation, and, in general, by beginning in a proper cultivation and ownership of the soil.

Defining the Struggle
Defining the Struggle

Author: Susan D. Carle

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0190235241

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This book punctures the myth that important national civil rights organizing in the United States began with the NAACP, showing that earlier national organizations developed key ideas about law and racial justice activism that the NAACP later pursued.

Lift Up Thy Voice
Lift Up Thy Voice

Author: Mark Perry

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-12-31

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1101662395

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In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and advocacy of women's rights in the North. After the Civil War, discovering that their late brother had had children with one of his slaves, the Grimké sisters helped to educate their nephews and gave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. The nephews, Archibald and Francis, went on to become well-known African American activists in the burgeoning civil rights movement and the founding of the NAACP. Spanning 150 eventful years, this is an inspiring tale of a remarkable family that transformed itself and America.