Booker T. Washington: “These were the ambitious youths of the race, at work with an earnestness that put to shame the conventional student life…”

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.