Booker T. Washington: “If you go out to have schools of your own, have your pupils sing them as you have sung them here, and teach them to see…”

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

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.