Booker T. Washington: “We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.