Booker T. Washington - Builder of a Civilization
by Emmett J Scott (9781406724349)

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization By Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe - FOREWORD IN THE passing of a character so unique as Dr. Booker T. Washington, many of us, his friends, were anxious that his biography should be written by those best qualified to do so. It is therefore a source of gratification to us of his own race to have an account of Dr. Washington s career set forth in a form at once accurate and readable, such as will inspire unborn generations of Negroes and others to love and appreciate all mankind ofwhatever race or color. It is especially gratifying that this biography has been pre pared by the two people in all America best fitted, by antecedents and by intimate acquaintance and association with Dr. Washington, to undertake it. Mr. Lyman- Beecher Stowe is the grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, quot whose quotUncleTom s Cabin had a very direct influence on the abolition of slavery, and Mr. Emmett J. Scott was Dr. Washington s loyal and trusted secretary for eighteen years. ROBERT R. MOTON. Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, August I, 1916. AUTHORS PREFACE THIS is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive quotLife and Letters ofBooker T. Washingtonquot re mains still to be compiled. In this more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpret the chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy to be the leader of ten millions of people and to take his place for all time among America s great men. In fact, we have not even touched upon his childhood, early training, and education, because we felt the story of those early strug gles and privations hadbeen ultimately well told in his own words in quotUp from Slavery.quot This autobiography, however, published as it was fifteen years before his death, brings the story of his life only to the threshold of his greatest achievements. In this book we seek to give the full fruition of his life s work. Each chapter is complete in itself. Each presents a complete, although by no means of his life. exhaustive, picture of some phase We take no small satisfaction in the fact that we were personally selected by Booker Washington himself for this task. He considered us qualified to produce what he wanted namely, a record of his struggles and achieve ments at once accurate and readable, put in permanent form for the information of the public. He believed that such a record could best be furnished by his confidential associate, working in collaboration with a trained and ex perienced writer, sympathetically interested in the welfare of the Negro race. This, then, is whatwe have tried to do and the way we have tried to do it. We completed the first four chapters before Mr. Wash ington s death, but he never read them. In fact, it was our wish, to which he agreed, that he should not read what we had written until its publication in book form. EMMETT J. SCOTT, LYMAN BEECHER STOWE. IT IS not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For twenty years before his death he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world, and one ofthe most useful, as well as one of the most distinguished, of American citizens of any race. Eminent though his services were to the people of his own color, the white men of our Republic were almost as muchindebted to him, both directly and indirectly...

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