Teddy Roosevelt: “The white man needs just as much as the colored man to learn that for…”

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The white man needs just as much as the colored man to learn that for the average man the education that fits him to do work in life is industrial.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt believes that industrial education is essential for both white and colored citizens to succeed in life.

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