...raphy by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within t... ...formation of Mr. Washington’s character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern edu... ...ard of the head of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man... ...ought and reading and ob- servation; for the old difficulties remained and new ones 7 Booker T. Washington had sprung up. Then I saw clearly that the... ...the North. The first gift from any Northern person was received from a New York lady whom Miss Davidson met on the boat that was bringing her North. T... ...s for the completion of our new building. On my way North I stopped in New York to try to get a letter of recommendation from an officer of a missiona... ... I have always tried to keep his advice in mind. Meetings were held in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phila- delphia, and other large cities, and at all ...