Chapter I: Front Matter

MY LARGER EDUCATION

A NEW PORTRAIT OF MR. WASHINGTON

“When I had something to say about the white people I said it to the
white people; when I had something to say about coloured people I
said it to coloured people.”
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MY LARGER EDUCATION
BEING CHAPTERS FROM MY EXPERIENCE

BY

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

_Author of “Up From Slavery,” “The Story of the Negro,” “Character
Building,” etc._

ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

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GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911

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COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Learning from Men and Things 3

II. Building a School Around a Problem 21

III. Some Exceptional Men, and What I Have Learned from Them 51

IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers 81

V. The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob 102

VI. A Commencement Oration on Cabbages 128

VII. Colonel Roosevelt and What I Have Learned from Him 158

VIII. My Educational Campaigns Through the South and What They
Taught Me 183

IX. What I Have Learned from Black Men 205

X. Meeting High and Low in Europe 239

XI. What I Learned About Education in Denmark 262

XII. The Mistakes and the Future of Negro Education 287

ILLUSTRATIONS

A new portrait of Mr. Washington _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

A partial view of Hampton Institute 10

The site of Tuskegee Institute when it was first bought 22

The house in Malden, W. Va., in which Mr. Washington
lived when he began teaching 46

Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisiana 104

Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi 104

Major John R. Lynch, U. S. A. 104

Charles Banks 104

A type of the unpretentious cabin which an Alabama Negro
formerly occupied and the modern home in which he now
lives 124

The “Rising Star” schoolhouse 146

Two types of coloured churches 152

“Little Texas” schoolhouse, Alabama 164

“Washington Model School,” Alabama 164

Mr. Washington addressing an audience of Virginia
Negroes 186

Rufus Herron, of Camp Hill, Ala. 218

Major Robert Russa Moton 218

Professor George Washington Carver 218

Bishop George W. Clinton 218

A meeting of the Negro ministers of Macon County,
Alabama 234

Tompkins Memorial Hall, Hampton Institute 248

Trade School at Hampton Institute 248

Bricklaying at Hampton Institute 268

Blacksmithing at Hampton Institute 268

Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building, Tuskegee
Institute 300

The Office Building in which are located the
administrative offices of the school 300

MY LARGER EDUCATION