Booker T. Washington: “We want to feel that in every student who goes out from here there is a character which can be depended upon in the…”

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.