No one can come into contact with the race for twenty years, as I have done in the heart of the South, without being convinced that the race is constantly making slow but sure progress materially, educationally, and morally.
Drawing on two decades of direct experience in the South, Washington expresses his firm conviction in the steady material, educational, and moral advancement of the Black race.
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