Excerpt from Minority Politics in Black Belt Alabama At exactly what point the opposition to the status quo began to form is difficult to say, but several events took place in the 19308 and 19408 that served as a forecast of things to come. One active Negro leader, who had been on the faculty of Tuskegee Institute for over 25 years, stated: Booker T. Washington came to teach the Negroes how to make a living. I came to teach them how to live. This idea of how to live meant a definite change in the status quo; it meant full ...
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Excerpt from Minority Politics in Black Belt Alabama At exactly what point the opposition to the status quo began to form is difficult to say, but several events took place in the 19308 and 19408 that served as a forecast of things to come. One active Negro leader, who had been on the faculty of Tuskegee Institute for over 25 years, stated: Booker T. Washington came to teach the Negroes how to make a living. I came to teach them how to live. This idea of how to live meant a definite change in the status quo; it meant full participation in the political and civic affairs of the community in addition to obtaining a formal education, buying a home and painting the fence. One white citizen stated that the real trouble started in 1944 when the college discontinued the practice of reserving special seats in the college chapel for the white townspeople. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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