Booker T. Washington: “This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.”

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.

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

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

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.