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"By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress."

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About Booker T. Washington

American educator, author, and orator who became a leading Black intellectual figure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted industrial education. He was one of the most influential voices in U.S. education and civil society of his era.

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