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.
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Booker T. Washington
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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…”
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In his autobiography, Washington describes how the quality of the school's products fostered unexpected interactions between races.
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