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Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements

Chapter 21 THE EVOLUTION OF A SHOEMAKER

Word Count: 3509    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

les L.

uary 1, 1867. My father and mother were both slaves. My fat

on a public free school for colored children. I

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Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements
“training, and that both, supplemented and sweetened by heart-training, make the high-souled, useful, productive, patriotic, law-loving, public-spirited citizen, of whom any nation might well be proud. The outcome of such education will be that, instead of the downtrodden child of ignorance, shiftlessness, and moral weakness, we shall generate the thoroughly rounded man of prudence, foresight, responsibility, and financial independence. He will cease to be the gullible victim of the sharper who plays upon vanity, credulity, and superstition, and learn”