Since this was true, we wanted to be careful not to educate our students out of sympathy with agricultural life, so that they would be attracted from the country to the cities, and yield to the temptation of trying to live by their wits.
From his autobiography, he explains the rationale behind Tuskegee's focus on agricultural education for Black students in the South.
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