Washington arose and asked them to sing one after another of the old melodies that I had heard all my life; but I had never before heard them sung by a thousand voices nor by the voices of educated Negroes.
Washington describes the powerful experience of hearing familiar songs sung by a large group of educated African Americans, emphasizing the cultural significance of music.
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The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.