Booker T. Washington: “You must make up your minds, after coming here, to do well whatever you undertake.”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.