_Paul Laurence Dunbar_ 187

VII The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day
_T. Thomas Fortune_ 211


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_Industrial Education for the Negro_

By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,

Principal of Tuskegee Institute

The necessity for the race's learning the difference between being
worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life,
but believes that the very best service which any one can render to what
is called the "higher education" is to teach the present generation to
work and save. This will create the wealth from which alone can come
leisure and the opportunity for higher education.


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