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Teddy Roosevelt: “Great though the benefit of these schools has been to their colored pupils and to the colored people, it may well be…”

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Great though the benefit of these schools has been to their colored pupils and to the colored people, it may well be questioned whether the benefit, has not been at least as great to the white people among whom these colored pupils live after they graduate.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He reflects on the mutual benefits of education for both African Americans and the white communities they integrate into.

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