It was not only a source of satisfaction to secure a permanent location for the school, but it was equally satisfactory to know that the greater part of the money with which it was paid for had been gotten from the white and coloured people in the town of Tuskegee.
Washington reflects on the satisfaction of securing funding for the school from both white and colored citizens.
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