Chapter III: Preface: BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT ix

CHAPTER

I. THE MAN AND HIS SCHOOL IN THE MAKING 3

II. LEADER OF HIS RACE 19

III. WASHINGTON: THE EDUCATOR 57

IV. THE RIGHTS OF THE NEGRO 82

V. MEETING RACE PREJUDICE 107

VI. GETTING CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE 135

VII. BOOKER WASHINGTON AND THE NEGRO FARMER 164

VIII. BOOKER WASHINGTON AND THE NEGRO BUSINESS MAN 185

IX. BOOKER WASHINGTON AMONG HIS STUDENTS 222

X. RAISING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS A YEAR 248

XI. MANAGING A GREAT INSTITUTION 272

XII. WASHINGTON: THE MAN 300

ILLUSTRATIONS

Booker T. Washington _Frontispiece_

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Tuskegee in the making. Nothing delighted Mr.
Washington more than to see his students doing
the actual work of erecting the Tuskegee
Institute buildings 12

Tuskegee Institute students laying the foundation
for one of the four Emery buildings 14

"His influence, like that of his school, was at first
community wide, then county wide, then State
wide, and finally nation wide" 16

A study in black. Note the tensity of expression
with which the group is following his each and
every word 32

Showing some of the teams of farmers attending the
Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference 58

An academic class. A problem in brick masonry 62

Mr. Washington in characteristic pose addressing
an audience 136

Mr. Washington silhouetted against the crowd upon
one of his educational tours 136

Mr. Washington in typical pose speaking to an
audience 136

A party of friends who accompanied Dr. Washington
on one of his educational tours 138

This old woman was a regular attendant at the
Tuskegee Negro Conference 170

The cosmopolitan character of the Tuskegee student
body is shown by the fact that during the
past year students have come from the foreign
countries or colonies of foreign countries indicated
by the various flags shown in this picture 238

In 1906 the Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 25th
Anniversary. A group of well-known American
characters attended 248

Some of Mr. Washington's humble friends 274

Soil analysis. The students are required to work
out in the laboratory the problems of the field
and the shop 274

Mr. Washington was a great believer in the sweet
potato 280

Mr. Washington had this picture especially posed
to show off to the best advantage a part of the
Tuskegee dairy herd 290

Mr. Washington feeding his chickens with green
stuffs raised in his own garden 306

Mr. Washington in his onion patch 306

Mr. Washington sorting in his lettuce bed 306

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

BUILDER OF A CIVILIZATION