The Negro Race: Booker T. Washington's Presentation to The First National Conference on Race Betterment

While not quite the same as giving a presentation to the Ku Klux Klan, one might not expect someone like Booker T. Washington to be invited to speak at an event billed as "The First National Conference on Race Betterment." This obscure lecture delivered in 1914 in Battle Creek Michigan detailed Washington's hope for the black race and some words of advice for how whites could help, and not harm, his efforts. Today's concept of 'race' is much different than those common in the early part of ...