E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24627-h.htm or 24627-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/6/2/24627/24627-h/24627-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/6/2/24627/24627-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Some illustrations have been moved so as not to break up the flow of the text. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Builder of a Civilization by EMMETT J. SCOTT and LYMAN BEECHER STOWE With a Preface by Theodore Roosevelt [Illustration: logo] Illustrated from Photographs Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1918 Copyright, 1916, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian Copyright, 1916, by the Outlook Publishing Co. [Illustration: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON] FOREWORD In the passing of a character so unique as Dr. Booker T. Washington, many of us, his friends, were anxious that his biography should be written by those best qualified to do so. It is therefore a source of gratification to us of his own race to have an account of Dr. Washington's career set forth in a form at once accurate and readable, such as will inspire unborn generations of Negroes and others to love and appreciate all mankind of whatever race or color. It is especially gratifying that this biography has been prepared by the two people in all America best fitted, by antecedents and by intimate acquaintance and association with Dr. Washington, to undertake it. Mr. Lyman Beecher Stowe is the grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had a very direct influence on the abolition of slavery, and Mr. Emmett J. Scott was Dr. Washington's loyal and trusted secretary for eighteen years. ROBERT R. MOTON. Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. _Tuskegee Institute, Alabama,_ _August 1, 1916._ AUTHORS' PREFACE