Whenever it is written—and I hope it will be—the part that the Yankee teachers played in the education of the Negroes immediately after the war will make one of the most thrilling parts of the history off this country.
Washington asserts the profound and thrilling historical importance of the "Yankee teachers'" contributions to the education of Black Americans following the Civil War.
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By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
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