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...shortly before the late great Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League, there were two Negro banks. When N. N. B. A. was formed in 1926, eleven years after Booker Washington's death, there were 25. Depression I took its toll of Negro banks as of white banks. Today there are twelve active Negro banks and trust companies (with total capital of $1,000,000, assets of $10,000,000) besides 18 savings, loan, and real estate banks...
...Antlers, Okla., Aubrey Booker, 25, playful mountaineer, left the family shack to "have fun" with county law officers. He 1) stole a car, 2) abandoned it, 3) stole another, 4) picked up a 15-year-old village lass and kept her with him three days, 5) robbed a filling station, 6) eluded posses in half a dozen counties, 7) robbed a second filling station, 8) tried to rob a third, walked into policemen's arms, walked out again, leaped on a horse, tore hell-roaring for home, tired by his six-day spree. Pa Booker yanked him from...
Long recognized as one of the most distinguished educators in the U. S. is Mary McLeod Bethune, "The Booker T. Washington of Florida," who once taught five little black girls in a cabin on a Florida dump and is now president of Daytona Beach's $800,000 co-educational Bethune-Cookman College. Since she turned up in Washington as director of the Division of Negro Affairs in Aubrey Williams' National Youth Administration, Mrs. Bethune has also won recognition as one of her race's most adroit politicians...
Buck contrasted the attitude of Booker T. Washington, great Negro leader of the nineteenth century with that of William Edward Du Bois '90. "Washington urged the Negroes to acquiesce to their place on the social and economic scale and to become good mechanics and farmers...
...Booker T. Washington in Union--Will speak on "Negro Progress." "The Night Riders"--Cast of Dramatic Club's Fall play...