When I left school at the end of my first year I owed the institution $16 that I had not been able to work out. One week one day during the last week of my stay in the restaurant, I found Under one of the tables a crisp new $10 bill. Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding and use of value of the Bible. Whatever ability I may have as a public speaker I owe to miss Lord when she found out that I had some inclination in this direction She gave me private lessons in this matter of breathing emphasis and articulation Simply to be able to talk in Public for the sake of talking has never had the least attraction
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.
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