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Industrial Education for Black Americans
Industrial Education for Black Americans
Industrial Education for Black Americans
One of the most fundamental and far-reaching deeds that has been accomplished during the last quarter of a century has been that by which the Negro has been helped to find himself and to learn the secrets of civilization–to learn that there are a few simple, cardinal principles upon which a race must start its upward course, unless it would fail, and its last estate be worse than its first.
My Escape from Slavery
Industrial Education for Black Americans
Industrial Education for Black Americans
On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, Douglass tells how meals were given to the children, very much as dumb animals get theirs. It was a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there. It was a cup of milk at one time and some potatoes at another.
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
"No republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal and equal means to maintain them."
Frederick Douglass
Talented Tenth
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Du Bois used the term "The Talented Tenth" to describe the likelihood of one in ten black men becoming leaders of their race in the world, through methods of continuing their education, writing books, or becoming directly involved in social change.