AQS on an off-white 8 x 5 sheet of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, January 16, 1895. Booker T. Washington pens a significant quote on the value of an education: "Education is only valuable in proportion as it is used." In very good to fine condition, with faint staining and soiling, and several vertical folds.
Born enslaved in 1856, Booker T. Washington led the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute from 1881 until his death in 1915. There he became one of the nation’s leading spokesmen for black Americans and the foremost advocate for their economic rights in the South. Washington wrote this quotation in 1895, the year of the Atlanta Cotton States and Industrial Exposition speech in which he laid the groundwork for what became known as the 'Atlanta Compromise.' There he articulated, to national white acclaim, the idea that blacks should accept segregation and white political rule in exchange for economic opportunity. Through industry, thrift, intelligence and property, they would win the respect of whites and ultimately a measure of social and political equality.
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