The Importance of Industrial Education

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The actual site of a first-class house is ten times more potent than pages of Discussion. The same principle of industrial education has been carried out in the building of our own wagons carts and buggies. A man who learns at Tuskegee to build and repair wagons and carts is regarded as a benefactor by both races in the community where he goes. He says this the individual who can do something that the world wants done will make his way regardless of race.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.