Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of the Tuskegee Institute, spoke on "Negro Progress" in the Living Room of the Union yesterday evening...
...only Tuskegee Institute, but scores of other institutions are examples of the progress the negro has made. In 1881, Dr. Washington started Tuskegee Institute in an old school-house in Alabama with only one teacher and thirty students. It now includes over 1300 students both men and women, 176 instructors, 3000 acres of land, and about 100 buildings, erected almost entirely by the students. These physical forces are not an end but a means for a great purpose. The negro masses had a consuming ambition for education, but along with this was a feeling that once educated it would...
Negroes' Economic Progress...
...Booker T. Washington on "Negro Progress," in Union Living Room...
Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of Tuskegee Institute, will lecture on "Negro Progress" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock...