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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, before the Hamilton Club, Chicago

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07934 Author/Creator: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Place Written: Tuskegee, Alabama Type: Typed document Date: 1896/01/31 Pagination: 5 p. : Height: 27.8 cm, Width: 21.2 cm Order a Copy

With autograph corrections. Washington's address establishes that he believes in the African American to be the glue that holds and can hold the North and the South together. He believes that African Americans in both the North and South struggle to better themselves as individuals and as a people, and that this can help improve both regions.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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