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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

CHAPTER XI
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The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.

All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South.
Another thing that is becoming more apparent each year in the development of education in the South is the influence of General Armstrong's idea of education; and this not upon the blacks alone, but upon the whites also.

At the present time there is almost no Southern state that is not putting forth efforts in the direction of securing industrial education for its white boys and girls, and in most cases it is easy to trace the history of these efforts back to General Armstrong.
Soon after the opening of our humble boarding department students began coming to us in still larger numbers.

For weeks we not only had to contend with the difficulty of providing board, with no money, but also with that of providing sleeping accommodations.

For this purpose we rented a number of cabins near the school.


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