I have spoken of my admiration for General Armstrong, and yet he was but a type of that Christlike body of men and women who went into the Negro schools at the close of the war by the hundreds to assist in lifting up my race.
Washington reflects on the post-Civil War era, acknowledging the selfless educators who dedicated themselves to the uplift of African Americans.
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Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…