Booker T. Washington: “Everybody had the utmost confidence in black people, and respected them.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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.