I do not think this would be true, because the Negro is a much stronger and wiser man than he was thirty-five years ago, and he is fast learning the lesson that he cannot afford to act in a manner that will alienate his Southern white neighbours from him.
Washington refutes the idea that past mistakes of Reconstruction would recur, asserting the progress and evolving political strategy of Black Americans.
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