An Address delivered by Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama, before the National Afro-American Council in McCauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky., Thursday Evening, July, 2, 1903.
The age of the students ranges from 16 to 87. The woman to whom the teacher is speaking is 87-year-old Julia Wilson, who was taught to read and write through the WPA program.