Booker T. Washington, the Negro
Educator, of Tuskegee, Pleads the
Right of His Race to Work.
Speaking of the future of the people of his race, President Booker T.
Washington says in the _American Illustrated Magazine_:
Whatever special difficulties the negro has to face,
whatever obstacles race prejudice or his own history may
place in his way, the negro, under freedom, has the right to
work, at least in the South, and work for the best things
the world offers. He has the opportunity to make himself
useful and to share the benefits that his genius and his
labor confer on those around him. That is, it seems to me,
what emancipation means, in practise, to the negro. That is,
after all, nearly all that it could mean.