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My larger education

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Booker T. Washington
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The writer reflects on lessons learned from a life devoted to education and institution-building, arguing that hardship can concentrate effort into productive power. He describes practical choices and daily work involved in founding and shaping a vocational school and in campaigning for broader educational access. Personal encounters with influential figures, journalists, and ordinary people inform assessments of leadership, publicity, and public opinion. Observations from travel, including study of foreign educational systems, are used to contrast methods and suggest improvements. Chapters consider trades instruction, moral and character training, and the errors and possibilities in schooling for African Americans. The book blends memoir, practical counsel, and candid evaluation of educational strategy.

ILLUSTRATIONS

A new portrait of Mr. Washington Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
A partial view of Hampton Institute 10
The site of Tuskegee Institute when it was first bought 22
The house in Malden, W. Va., in which Mr. Washington lived when he began teaching 46
Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisiana 104
Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi 104
Major John R. Lynch, U. S. A. 104
Charles Banks 104
A type of the unpretentious cabin which an Alabama Negro formerly occupied and the modern home in which he now lives 124
The “Rising Star” schoolhouse 146
Two types of coloured churches 152
“Little Texas” schoolhouse, Alabama 164
“Washington Model School,” Alabama 164
Mr. Washington addressing an audience of Virginia Negroes 186
Rufus Herron, of Camp Hill, Ala. 218
Major Robert Russa Moton 218
Professor George Washington Carver 218
Bishop George W. Clinton 218
A meeting of the Negro ministers of Macon County, Alabama 234
Tompkins Memorial Hall, Hampton Institute 248
Trade School at Hampton Institute 248
Bricklaying at Hampton Institute 268
Blacksmithing at Hampton Institute 268
Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building, Tuskegee Institute 300
The Office Building in which are located the administrative offices of the school 300