For Debussy, like Beethoven before him, is a passionate lover of Nature. Music: An Art and a Language Walter Raymond Spalding The following is illustrative of the attitude of the old master towards Debussy.
1878 to 1879 - Booker T. Washington spends the winter studying at the Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. 1879 - Booker T. Washington returns to Hampton to work for two years as a night teacher and supervisor of the Kiowa and Cheyenne students Hampton had recently accepted. May 1881 - Booker T. Washington is recommended by his supervisor to head a new school for African Americans to be founded in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Here is the full text of Booker T. Washington's fine autobiography, published in 1900. Signs of Progress Among the Negroes, Awakening of the Negro written around the turn of the century can be accessed from this web page; scroll down to 'Washington.' Washington was the first black to be invited to the White House for dinner with a President.