The Civic Education of Immigrants
Address by Mr. H. C. Brearly, of The National Board of Fire Underwriters at the National Immigration Conference Called by The Inter-Racial Council April 7th, at New York
YOU will very soon see that I am taking the word "education” in an extremely broad interpretation. I once heard Booker Washington say that the negro deserved a large degree of consideration because, as he phrased it, he was the only immigrant who had ever come to the United States by special invitation of the resident population. At the time he made that remark it probably was pretty largely true, but we are in consideraion of a situation today in which the resident population is so vitally interested in the subject of a large and desirable immigration that it has all the moral force of a special invitation, and therefore, of course, it imposes obligations.
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