Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Memorial Pilgrimage: Issued in Connection With the Unveiling of the Heroic Statue of Dr. Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on April 5, 1922
Resh from the inspiration of training under General Armstrong at Hampton Institute, a young and inconspicuous black man made his initial trip in 1881 into the Black Belt of Alabama to answer the call of service to his race. The man was Booker Talia ferro Washington; the Alabama town was Tuskegee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
