http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire en-us N/A news@aframnews.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:43:59 MST 20 http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1405/1/Booker-T-Washington-and-WEB-DuBois-by-Dudley-Randall/Page1.html “It shows a mighty lot of cheek
To study chemistry and Greek
When Mister Charlie needs a hand
To hoe the cotton on his land,
And when Miss Ann looks for a cook,
Why stick your nose inside a book?"

“I don't agree,” said W.E.B.
“If I should have the drive to seek
Knowledge of chemistry or Greek,
I'll do it. Charles and Miss can look
Another place for hand or cook,
Some men rejoice in skill of hand,
And some in cultivating land,
But there are others who maintain
The right to cultivate the brain.”
“It seems to me,” said Booker T.,
“That all you folks have missed the boat
Who shout about the right to vote,
And spend vain days and sleepless nights
In uproar over civil rights.
Just keep your mouths shut, do not grouse,
But work, and save, and buy a house.”

“I don't agree,” said W.E.B.
“For what can property avail
If dignity and justice fail?
Unless you help to make the laws,
They'll steal your house with trumped-up clause.
A rope's as tight, a fire as hot,
No matter how much cash you've got.
Speak soft, and try your little plan,
But as for me, I'll be a man.”
“It seems to me,” said Booker T.--
“I don't agree,” said W.E.B.





Top photo: Booker T. Washington
Bottom photo: W.E.B. Dubois

]]> no@spam.com (Staff Writer) http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1405/1/Booker-T-Washington-and-WEB-DuBois-by-Dudley-Randall/Page1.html http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1404/1/The-Great-Debate/Page1.html ]]> no@spam.com (Staff Writer) http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1404/1/The-Great-Debate/Page1.html http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1400/1/Douglass-and-Lincoln-whispers-of-freedom/Page1.html Those were the words of our beloved 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. He penned those words in a letter to Horace Greely, written August 22, 1862. In the letter, he expressly stated his only purpose for freeing the slaves was to save the Union, which was in the middle of a civil war.



]]> no@spam.com (Tuala Williams) http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1400/1/Douglass-and-Lincoln-whispers-of-freedom/Page1.html http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/articles/1394/1/Black-History/Page1.html Booker T. Washington was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm. His mother, a slave, was a cook, and his father a White man from a nearby farm. He went to school in Franklin County but could only carry books for one of James Burroughs's daughters. In April 1865, when the Emancipation Proclamation was read in front of the Burroughs home, Booker's family left to join his stepfather in Malden, West Virginia.

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Later, he was sent to Baltimore to live as a houseboy with Hugh and Sophia Auld, relatives of his master. His new mistress taught him the alphabet. When her husband forbade her to continue, he made the neighborhood boys his teachers, by giving away his food in exchange for lessons in reading and writing.

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