Booker T. Washington: “But the question that comes to us with the greatest force is: "Are we going to be worthy of that support?”

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

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.