现代大学英语（第三版）精读5 教案 Unit_8_ Invisible Man.pdf

Unit 8 Invisible Man Chapter 1 Battle Royal Ralph Ellison Booker T. Washington and his Atlanta Speech in 1895 Booker T. Washington (1856— 1915) was an American educator who advised blacks to raise their social position through education and economic advancement. Washington was born in 1856, on a plantation in Virginia, the son of a slave. Following the Civil War, his family moved to West Virginia, where he worked in coal mines, attending school whenever he could. From 1872 to 1875 he attended a newly founded school for blacks, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. After graduation he taught for two years and then studied at Wayland Seminary, in Washington D.C. In 1879 he became an instructor at Hampton Institute, where he helped to organize a night school. The school was so successful that in 1881 the founder of Hampton Institute appointed Washington organizer and principal of a black normal school in Tuskegee, Alabama (now Tuskegee University). Washington made the institution into a major center for industrial and agricultural training and in the process became a well-known public speaker. On September 18, 1895, in Atlanta, Georgia, Washington delivered a well-known address, which became one of the most important influential speeches in American history, establishing Washington as one of the leading black spokesmen in the United States. In Chapter 1 of Invisible Man, after the battle royal was over, the narrator gave his graduation speech, in which he echoed Booker T. Washingtons views and even repeated parts of the speech in exactly the same wording. Therefore, it is necessary for us to know what Washington said in his speech before the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.