The Negro Problem - Paperback - 9781502767417

he 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 civilization-to learn that there are a few simple, cardinal principles upon which a race must start its upward course, unless it would fail, and its last estate be worse than its first.

• | Author: Booker T. Washington
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 108 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1502767414
• | ISBN-13: 9781502767417