Evie Eysenburg Ephemera
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION - THE HOPE of THE SOUTHERN NEGRO - 1908 ADDRESS by HON. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT DELIVERED at BROOKLYN CHURCH
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COLUMBUS OH, 1908
In this speech, Taft strongly advocates vocational training for the Southern Negro. "The founding of Hampton Institute constituted truly and historically an epoch in the development of the whole Negro race... The taking away of from Southern slaveowners the 5,000,000 Negroes who had been under the Constitution their property, and the making of them freemen as they were without preparation for the responsibilities of freedom, was a change so radical and a social wrench so violent that it must have been accompanied by temporary evils which for a time clouded the great beneficence of the change."
Taft contradicts the view of enfranchised Negroes that emancipation brought freedom from the necessity for manual labor, stating that Hampton and Tuskegee teach "the dignity of labor, the value of skill, the use of the mind, and the application of the hand." The founders of those schools saw the colored people "needed training in the branches of human endeavor in which there was was hope of real and immediate success and made their schools accordingly."
He concluded by saying that "industrial independence, the aim of Hampton and Tuskegee, is the basis for all real progress of the Negro race."
Taft was the Republican nominee for president in 1908 and defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the election.
5 7/8" X 8 5/8" - 12 pp - very good condition.
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