Adam Harris
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1,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5d ago
Adam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's do it again.
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When we come back, we go into the Atlantic Archives to consider what history tells us about the purpose of higher education.
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We're back in the archives this week with a look at a question that has troubled some of the greatest minds throughout history.
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It's a question that Booker T.
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Washington and W.
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Du Bois tried to answer in the Atlantic between 1896 and 1903.
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Are colleges designed only to train people to work for their own improvement, or are they designed to train people to create a better society?
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Booker T.
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Washington was the most powerful black man of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in America.
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He was born on a tobacco plantation in 1856, and he was emancipated from slavery at the end of the Civil War.
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He was nine years old then.
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Education changed his life.
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Writing about his upbringing in the September 1896 issue of The Atlantic, Washington said, quote, after the close of the war, while working in the coal mines of West Virginia for the support of my mother, I heard in some accidental way of the Hampton Institute.
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Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia had opened its doors in 1868.
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It had a simple mission.
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Quote to train selected Negro youth who should go out and teach and lead their people first by example.
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The students from Hampton were expected to get land and homes, to work for their money with knowledge of why they were doing the work, or, as the institution's founder put it, to replace stupid drudgery with skilled hands.
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