Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
Booker T. Washington: “Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money…”
Editor's note · Context
Washington proudly details the widespread and positive transformations brought about by Tuskegee graduates in various communities, from economic improvement to moral uplift.
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