On the recordOctober 23, 1905
To the white population as well as to the black, it is of the utmost importance that the negro be encouraged to make himself a citizen of the highest type of usefulness.
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Remarks at Tuskegee Normal Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama
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