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CHAPTER TWELVE - Raising Money

Summary

The problem of boarding was most important in connection with the female students. They could not be boarded in homes in the community like the males and the only other accommodation available was the attic of Porter Hall. They needed ten thousand dollars to build a dormitory for the women, so Miss Davidson began making efforts to enlist the help of both colored and white people to build Alabama Hall, the name they had already chosen. The students began digging the foundation while Booker tried to think of ways that greater amounts of contributions would be obtained. General Armstrong became his savior once more: he convinced Booker to travel with him in the North for a month while he took a quartette of singers throughout the region. There he introduced Booker to just the right people and took him to just the right meetings where he could plead for funds for Tuskegee. It was such a successful trip that Booker eventually began traveling on his own. It meant that he spent a large portion of his time away from his school, but he had to provide for the growing needs of the Institution.

Out of these experiences, he developed two rules: to always do his duty regarding making his work known to individuals and organizations and to not worry about the results. He discovered that the sweeping criticisms of the rich were misplaced, because first, the rich and their........

Notes

If nothing else can be discerned from this chapter, it is Booker T. Washington’s realistic attitude about securing funding for his school and the attitudes of the people who had the funds he needed. He had a tremendous instinct about what made the rich “tick” and how to make them want to.......

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