Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains two handwritten essays by James E. Tubb advocating industrial education, a form of general education and skill-based training proposed in the early 20th century by Booker T. Washington, to provide a foundation for African Americans to gain economic stability.The first essay, Industrial Education -- Its Effects upon Civil Life, is written on stationary printed with Office of James E. Tubb, Lawyer and Waverly, Tenn., 190_, indicating that Tubb wrote one or...