CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| [Foreword] by Robert R. Moton | [v] | |
| [Authors' Preface] | [vii] | |
| [Preface] by Theodore Roosevelt | [ix] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| [I.] | The Man and His School in the Making | [3] |
| [II.] | Leader of His Race | [19] |
| [III.] | Washington: the Educator | [57] |
| [IV.] | The Rights of the Negro | [82] |
| [V.] | Meeting Race Prejudice | [107] |
| [VI.] | Getting Close to the People | [135] |
| [VII.] | Booker Washington and the Negro Farmer | [164] |
| [VIII.] | Booker Washington and the Negro Business Man | [185] |
| [IX.] | Booker Washington Among His Students | [222] |
| [X.] | Raising Hundreds of Thousands a Year | [248] |
| [XI.] | Managing a Great Institution | [272] |
| [XII.] | Washington: The Man | [300] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Booker T. Washington | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Tuskegee in the making. Nothing delighted Mr. Washington more than to see his students doing the actual work of erecting the Tuskegee Institute buildings | [12] |
| Tuskegee Institute students laying the foundation for one of the four Emery buildings | [14] |
| "His influence, like that of his school, was at first community wide, then county wide, then State wide, and finally nation wide" | [16] |
| A study in black. Note the tensity of expression with which the group is following his each and every word | [33] |
| Showing some of the teams of farmers attending the Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference | [58] |
| An academic class. A problem in brick masonry | [62] |
| Mr. Washington in characteristic pose addressing an audience | [136] |
| Mr. Washington silhouetted against the crowd upon one of his educational tours | [136] |
| Mr. Washington in typical pose speaking to an audience | [136] |
| A party of friends who accompanied Dr. Washington on one of his educational tours | [138] |
| This old woman was a regular attendant at the Tuskegee Negro Conference | [170] |
| The cosmopolitan character of the Tuskegee student body is shown by the fact that during the past year students have come from the foreign countries or colonies of foreign countries indicated by the various flags shown in this picture | [238] |
| In 1906 the Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 25th Anniversary. A group of well-known American characters attended | [248] |
| Some of Mr. Washington's humble friends | [274] |
| Soil analysis. The students are required to work out in the laboratory the problems of the field and the shop | [274] |
| Mr. Washington was a great believer in the sweet potato | [280] |
| Mr. Washington had this picture especially posed to show off to the best advantage a part of the Tuskegee dairy herd | [290] |
| Mr. Washington feeding his chickens with green stuffs raised in his own garden | [306] |
| Mr. Washington in his onion patch | [306] |
| Mr. Washington sorting in his lettuce bed | [306] |