Booker T. Washington: On Building Character

Character Building by Booker T. Washington was published in 1902. This is one review from the southern city of Richmond, Virginia.

​“Many of this eminent negro leader’s friends think that the best literary work that he has done is the Sunday-Evening talks to the students of Tuskegee Institute, which he is in the habit of making when he is home. He throws into this work his whole moral nature, and many of these addresses rise to eloquence. They are all earnest and show the constructive quality of his mind. …
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“There is plenty of good sense in the book, and admonition, that, if heeded, would place the black race above the white.

“Indeed, there is sound advice in it for the reading of white men as well as black.”

​​The Richmond Virginia Times, August 31, 1902

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