. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. r, few even among friendlycritics longer regarded these faults as en-tirely eliminable. A well qualified andwhollv unbiased jud^e of ne<^ro charactergave it as emphatically his opinion that anyautonomous community of colored people, no IS95] NEIVEST DIXIE i05 matter how highly educated or civilized,would relapse into barbarism in the courseof two generations. This view was notrendered absurd by the existence of fairlywell administeredmunicipalities hereand there with negromayors. Many negroeswere extr
. History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time. r, few even among friendlycritics longer regarded these faults as en-tirely eliminable. A well qualified andwhollv unbiased jud^e of ne<^ro charactergave it as emphatically his opinion that anyautonomous community of colored people, no IS95] NEIVEST DIXIE i05 matter how highly educated or civilized,would relapse into barbarism in the courseof two generations. This view was notrendered absurd by the existence of fairlywell administeredmunicipalities hereand there with negromayors. Many negroeswere extremelybright and apt inimitation, also in allmemoriter and lin-guistic work. TheNew Orleans CottonCentennial and theNashville Exposition each had its negrodepartment. But it was distinctive of theAtlanta Fair that one of its buildings wasentirely devoted to exhibits of negro handi-craft. At once in range and in the qualityof the objects which it embraced, the displaywas creditable to the race. Here and there,moreover, the race had produced a grandcharacter. The most notable of the open-. Booker T. Washington. 166 EXPANSION [1895 ing addresses at the Atlanta Fair was madeby the colored educator, Booker T. Wash-ington, President of the Tuskegee Normaland Industrial Institute for negro youth. His oration on this occasion directed at-tention to Mr. Washington not only as aremarkable negro, but as a remarkable poor as could be and fighting his wayto an education against every conceivableobstacle, he had at the age of forty dis-tinguished himself as a business organizer,as an educator, as a writer, and as a publicspeaker. His modesty, discretion, and in-dustry were phenomenal, at once constitut-ing him a leader of his race and renderinghis leadership valuable. He eschewed poli-tics, avoided in everything the demagoguesways, and never spoke ill of the whites, noteven of Southern whites. But, unfortunately, a great negro such asWashington stood like a mountain in amarsh, sporad
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