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From Graffiti: From The Archives: Booker T. Washington Visits Claremont
From The Archives: Booker T. Washington Visits Claremont
When Booker T. Washington spoke on January 3, 1903, the Los Angeles Times hailed him as, “one of the greatest... men who have visited Pomona College.” The Pomona College Student Life reported, “[the speech] was attended by a great throng of people such as Pomona College has not witnessed for many a day.” In his address, Washington discussed race relations, the importance of higher education, and the mission of the Tuskegee Institute, which he founded in 1881: “We, of our institute, believe in dignifying every common labor which goes to build up the world; we believe in making work, if well done, nothing less than sublime.”
—Carrie Marsh, Special Collections Librarian
From Graffiti, Volume 2, Issue 2, March 2005 (pdf), from the Graffiti Archives.
— michael | November 27, 2007 09:45 AM | The more you know
