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The problem of the South appears to be not how much education but how little it can possibly give the blacks in comparison with what it gives the whites.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “The problem of the South appears to be not how much education but how little it can possibly give the blacks in…”
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Grimké critiques the educational disparities between Black and white individuals in the South, emphasizing systemic inequality.
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