Colored Amer Working Man Of Th

Excerpt from The Colored American Working Man of the New Time: An Address Delivered Before the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, at Greensboro, May 26, 1898 This movement, Industrial Education, is the most notable of all the successive reforms in popular education during the past fifty years. It means that this republic now calls on every Ameri can boy and girl, the twenty millions of young Americans who twenty - five years from today must be the solid phalanx at the center of the great fluetuating multitude of the American people, to put on the a'mor for the grand and awful time ahead. The republic now summons the superior class of the schools for colored youth to the work of lifting the fifty per cent of the eight millions of American citizens of African descent out of the slough of illiteracy which is the bottom curse of every southern Ameri can state and the chief obstacle to their progress in the career of American citizenship. It is an almost hopless task to attempt to improve the pre sent condition of labor even in the Northern states. While agreat multitude of ignorant and incompetent working men from over the sea is now enlisted in a campaign for awar of labor against capital, largely under the command of foreign demagogues and political adventurers, driving every northern state to the peril ous edge of civil war. 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.