Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott
Emmett Jay Scott (1873–1957) was an influential African American educator, journalist, and author. He served as a close advisor to Booker T. Washington and became the secretary of Tuskegee Institute. Scott was also appointed as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during World War I, where he advocated for the fair treatment of African American soldiers. He authored the book "Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War," documenting the contributions of Black soldiers during the war.

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CHAPTER I Within the brief period of three years following the outbreak of the great war in Europe, more than four hundred thousand negroes suddenly moved north. In extent this movement is without parallel in American history, for it swept on thousands of the blacks from remote regions of the South, depopulated entire communities, drew upon the negro inhabitants of practically every city of the South,... more...

AUTHORS’ PREFACE THIS is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive "Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington" remains still to be compiled. In this more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpret the chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy to be the leader of ten millions of people and to take his place for all time among America's great... more...