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Black-belt diamonds;

gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington ...
  
  
  
  

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The Christ-like Workers

Let no generation of Negroes ever prove
ungrateful to those Christ-like workers, the
band of noble and heroic Northern men and
women who have devoted the best years of
their lives to the building up of our schools
and colleges in the South, and at a time when
to have engaged in such work meant for them
complete social ostracism and risk of life, but
rather let us build with our earnest and unselfish


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deeds monuments to their memories that
shall tell succeeding generations from whence
we started. Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks.