Word: negro
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Northwest Amazon Basin, 1912-1913." An account of the last expedition and continuation of the work of the previous explorations, which have had as their main object the mapping of the big tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers in the unknown region west of the Rio Negro, will feature the talk...
...education. Following this he told of his resolve to take up work in the black belt of Alabama, and his development of the Tuskegee Institute; and closed with a few evidences of the progress of his race, and an enumeration of the opportunities for useful service that the negro problem offers...
After speaking of the good which Tuskegee was accomplishing among the negroes, not alone in the United States but even in many foreign countries, for Tuskegee has students enrolled from 36 states and 18 foreign countries, Mr. Washington turned to the consideration of a few of their problems. The negro, he thinks, is better suited to country life than he is to the conditions which surround him in the large cities, both southern and northern. For this reason, Tuskegee has always devoted itself especially to the training of farmers. At the commencement exercises, addresses are always given on practical problems...
...just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides in both wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor there. Since 1881 he has been head of the negro school at Tuskegee, Alabama. Opened in July of that year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro race...
...Washington is the author of several books, among them being "The Future of the American Negro," "Character Building," and "Working With the Hands." The University conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1896 and Dartmouth that of LL.D...