booker t washington (2)
“We are going forward, and we shall keep going forward if we do not let these difficulties which sometimes occur discourage us.”
--Booker T. Washington, Author
“Character Building”
The Bible. Hard work. Thrift. Community investment. Education. Business building by men and women. These might ‘seem’ like modern innovations. However, if one knows their history, these items—and more—were the ‘norm’ in the old South after the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. They were proclaimed by many b