On the recordJanuary 1, 1901
Many white people who had had no contact with the school, and perhaps no sympathy with it, came to us to buy bricks because they found out that ours were good bricks.
Said by
Booker T. Washington
Source
gutenberg.orgBooker T. Washington: “Many white people who had had no contact with the school, and perhaps no sympathy with it, came to us to buy bricks…”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Washington describes how the quality of the school's products fostered unexpected interactions between races.
Share
More from Booker T. Washington
Jan 1, 1901
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.
Jan 1, 1901
What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…
Jan 1, 1901
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
Jan 1, 1901
This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.