# Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization

Author: Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957; Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-1963; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24627

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Booker+T.+Washington%2C+Builder+of+a+Civilization+Scott&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It came about that in the year 1880, in Macon County, Alabama, a certain ex-Confederate colonel conceived the idea that if he could secure the Negro vote he could beat his rival and win the seat he coveted in the State Legislature. Accordingly, the colonel went to the leading Negro in the town of Tuskegee and asked him what he could do to secure the Negro vote, for Negroes then voted in Alabama without restriction. This man, Lewis Adams by name, himself an ex-slave, promptly replied that what his race most wanted was education and what they most needed was industrial education, and that if he (the colonel) would agree to work for the passage of a bill appropriating money for the maintenan...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-24627/chapters/1/index.md)