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Booker T. Washington
Builder of a Civilization
By
Emmett J. Scott
and
Lyman Beecher Stowe
With a Preface by Theodore Roosevelt
Illustrated from Photographs
Garden CityNew York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1918
Copyright, 1916, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE OUTLOOK PUBLISHING CO.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
FOREWORD
IN THE passing of a character so unique as Dr. Booker T. Washington,many of us, his friends, were anxious that his biography should bewritten by those best qualified to do so. It is therefore a source ofgratification to us of his own race to have an account of Dr.Washington's career set forth in a form at once accurate and readable,such as will inspire unborn generations of Negroes and others to loveand appreciate all mankind of whatever race or color. It is especiallygratifying that this biography has been prepared by the two people inall America best fitted, by antecedents and by intimate acquaintanceand association with Dr. Washington, to undertake it. Mr. LymanBeecher Stowe is the grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose "UncleTom's Cabin" had a very direct influence on the abolition of slavery,and Mr. Emmett J. Scott was Dr. Washington's loyal and trustedsecretary for eighteen years.
Robert R. Moton.
Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama,
August 1, 1916.
AUTHORS’ PREFACE
THIS is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Lifeand Letters of Booker T. Washington" remains still to be compiled. Inthis more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpretthe chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy tobe the leader of ten millions of people and to take his place for alltime among America's great men. In fact, we have not even touched uponhis childhood, early training, and educati