A type of the unpretentious cabin which an Alabama Negro formerly occupied and the modern home in which he now lives 124 The “Rising Star” schoolhouse 146 Two types of coloured churches 152 “Little Texas” schoolhouse, Alabama 164 “Washington Model School,” Alabama 164 Mr. Washington addressing an audience of Virginia Negroes 186 Rufus Herron, of Camp Hill, Ala. 218 Major Robert Russa Moton 218 Professor George Washington Carver 218 Bishop George W. Clinton 218 A meeting of the Negro ministers of Macon County, Alabama 234 Tompkins Memorial Hall, Hampton Institute 248 Trade School at Hampton Institute 248 Bricklaying at Hampton Institute 268 Blacksmithing at Hampton Institute 268 Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building, Tuskegee Institute 300 The Office Building in which are located the administrative offices of the school 300 MY LARGER EDUCATION CHAPTER I LEARNING FROM MEN AND THINGS It has been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem—a hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I looked upon this fact as a great misfortune. It seemed to me a great hardship that I was born poor, and it seemed an even greater hardship that I should have been born a Negro. I did not like to admit, even to myself, that I felt this way about the matter, because it seemed to me an indication of weakness and cowardice for any man to complain about the condition he was born to. Later I came to the conclusion that it was not only weak and cowardly, but that it was a mistake to think of the matter in the way in which I had done. I came to see that, along with his disadvantages, the Negro in America had some advantages, and I made up my mind that opportunities that had been denied him from without could be more than made up by greater concentration and power within.