In all our difficulties and anxieties, however, I never went to a white or a black person in the town of Tuskegee for any assistance that was in their power to render, without being helped according to their means.
Washington recounts the consistent support he received from both Black and white residents of Tuskegee during the school's early financial struggles.
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