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- GLC#
- GLC04297.02-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- October 25, 1915
- Author/Creator
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- Title
- Needs and progress of the Negro
- Place Written
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 8 p. : Height: 15.8 cm, Width: 9 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Printed leaflet of an address delivered by Washington at the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. First page contains the New York address of the Missionary Association and a photograph of Washington. Text indicates that this is only part of Washington's presentation. Contents discuss race relations in America. Outlines the vast growth in academic opportunities for African-Americans since the Civil War, but stresses that much work still has to be done in funding schools for blacks: "There is sometimes much talk of the inferiority of the Negro. In practice, however, the idea appears to be that he is a sort of superman. He is expected, with about one-fifth or one-tenth of what the whites receive for their education, to make as much progress as they are making." Contains some marks in red pen. Previously contained within GLC04297.01.
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