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...entitled by his ability and capacity to go, a student of my race, fresh and cleanly dressed, courteous, without threat or violence, to seek admission."Among antagonistic whites, Faulkner asks himself, "Would you find it hard not to hate them?" His reply: "I would repeat to myself Booker T. Washington's words ... 'I will let no man, no matter what his color, ever make me hate him.' . . . Hypothetical Negro Faulkner's big decision: "I would be a member of the N.A.A.C.P., since nothing else in our U.S. culture has yet held out to my race that...
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the century, presidents, Congress and prevailing public opinion in the North agreed to leave the "Negro Problem" in the hands of "intelligent Southern white men." Booker T. Washington in his Atlanta "Compromise" Address, September 18, 1895, greatly strengthened this concept. The fact that a Negro opposed "artificial forcing" and urged reliance on "Southern write friends" made it one of the main currents of American though. Hodding Carter, one of the best known contemporary Southern white liberals, has considerable support in the North when he insists "Leave us alone." There...
Choral Tribute (Thurs. 5:15 p.m., NBC). Honoring Booker T. Washington's 100th birthday anniversary...
...Approved a resolution establishing the Booker T. Washington National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April...
...landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even in his most intemperate outbursts, Eastland never descends to the kind of semi-obscene, anti-Negro venom displayed by Mississippi's late Senator James Vardaman when he declared: "I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning...