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...Booker T. Washington was head. The Klansmen who made the demonstration apparently did nothing more than march in silence through the town and past the Institute. Immediately the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent a telegram to President Harding asking that troops be sent to protect the lives of the colored doctors and of Dr. Robert R. Moton, present head of the Institute...
Here is General Booth, The Congo, The Booker T. Washington Trilogy, Daniel?that inspires even professional audiences to give vent to as leonine roars of approbation as possible. Here Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, ("The Campaign of Eighteen Ninety-Six as Viewed at the Time by a Sixteen Year Old") with the most magnificent compliment ever paid to a Presidential candidate, " The one American poet who could sing outdoors." Here is The Chinese Nightingale (Mr. Lindsay's own favorite among his longer poems), and The Litany of the Heroes which he describes as a " rhymed Outline of History, still in process...
...spite of disfranchisement and peonage, mob violence and public contempt, they have kept this faith and have allowed themselves to hope with the optimism of Booker T. Washington that in proportion as they grew in intelligence, wealth, and self-respect, they should win the confidence and esteem of their fellow white Americans, and should gradually acquire the responsibilities and privileges of full American citizenship...
...Booker in Charge of Big Tree...
...Booker will have general supervision at the Big Tree Swimming Pool on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons and will teach men how to swim. In addition there will be an instructor at the pool on the other afternoons to take charge of Freshmen who elect swimming as their sport...