Title: Booker T. Washington Tuskegee successor, Letter: Racism “misunderstanding” Author: Moton, Robert Russa Place: Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Publisher: Date: 1926 Description: Typed Letter Signed (with handwritten postscript) as Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, Nov. 9, 1926. 1pg. To Miss Marion Deane, Hampton Institute, Virginia. Moton, Booker T. Washington’s protégé, was named Principal of the Tuskegee Institute after the death of his mentor in 1915, a position he held for 20 years. This remarkable statement of the moderate Washington philosophy in the face of blatant Southern white racism was already eclipsed by the more militant activism of W.E.B. DuBois. “...the depth and sincerity of your interest in the welfare of my people...the things which the Negro must endure... due more to misunderstanding than malice. I am persuaded after all, that not a great many people carry malice around in their hearts and the few who do, do not hold it very long when they have discovered the truth. Hampton and Tuskegee are both bending all their energies to bring white people and black people to the point where they hall know and understand each other, confident that when each has seen the other in his true light, all prejudice and malice and ill-will will disappear..." Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 288583
Title: Booker T. Washington Tuskegee successor, Letter: Racism “misunderstanding” Author: Moton, Robert Russa Place: Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Publisher: Date: 1926 Description: Typed Letter Signed (with handwritten postscript) as Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, Nov. 9, 1926. 1pg. To Miss Marion Deane, Hampton Institute, Virginia. Moton, Booker T. Washington’s protégé, was named Principal of the Tuskegee Institute after the death of his mentor in 1915, a position he held for 20 years. This remarkable statement of the moderate Washington philosophy in the face of blatant Southern white racism was already eclipsed by the more militant activism of W.E.B. DuBois. “...the depth and sincerity of your interest in the welfare of my people...the things which the Negro must endure... due more to misunderstanding than malice. I am persuaded after all, that not a great many people carry malice around in their hearts and the few who do, do not hold it very long when they have discovered the truth. Hampton and Tuskegee are both bending all their energies to bring white people and black people to the point where they hall know and understand each other, confident that when each has seen the other in his true light, all prejudice and malice and ill-will will disappear..." Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 288583
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