Perhaps I might add right here, what I hope to demonstrate later, that, so far as I know, the Tuskegee school at the present time has no warmer and more enthusiastic friends anywhere than it has among the white citizens of Tuskegee and throughout the state of Alabama and the entire South.
Washington highlights the support and enthusiasm for the Tuskegee school from local white citizens.
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From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.