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16 - Boys Life of Booker T. Washington by Walter Clinton Jackson · Boys Life of Booker T. Washington

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen of A Boy's Life of Booker T. Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Life of Booker T. Washington by W. C. Jackson. Booker T. Washington,
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  Speaker 1: the man Brooker Washington at home with his wife and children,
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  Speaker 1: his garden, his chickens, his pigs, his horses, and cows,
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  Speaker 1: is far more interesting than Washington the orator, the writer,
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  Speaker 1: the teacher, the traveler, the college principal. No man ever
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  Speaker 1: loved his home more than Washington. He had to be
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  Speaker 1: away from it much of the time. He was away
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  Speaker 1: at least half of each year. This was a great
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  Speaker 1: hardship to him, and just as often as was possible,
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  Speaker 1: he got away from his exacting duties and returned to
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  Speaker 1: Tuskegee to find rest in quiet and comfort, and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: with his own family. He was an early riser when
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  Speaker 1: at home, getting up always at six o'clock. His first
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  Speaker 1: morning task was to gather the fresh eggs. He was
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  Speaker 1: very fund of chickens and always kept a number of them.
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  Speaker 1: I begin my day, he says, by seeing how many
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  Speaker 1: eggs I can find, or how many little chicks there
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  Speaker 1: are that are just beginning to creep through the shells,
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  Speaker 1: I like to find the new eggs myself, and I
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  Speaker 1: am selfish enough to permit no one else to do this.
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  Speaker 1: He was very fun of animals of all kinds, but
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  Speaker 1: the pig was his favorite. He always kept a number
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  Speaker 1: of the very finest breeds of Berkshires and poland China's.
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  Speaker 1: After gathering the fresh eggs, his next job was feeding
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  Speaker 1: the pigs. After that came a visit to the cows.
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  Speaker 1: He always kept a good garden, too, and a part
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  Speaker 1: of the early morning was given to working in it.
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  Speaker 1: He had a very peculiar custom or idea about his
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  Speaker 1: garden work. He always barefoot. He said that there was
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  Speaker 1: something in the soil that gave one's strength and health
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  Speaker 1: and power, but you had to get it by direct
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  Speaker 1: contact with the soil. After this early morning round of
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  Speaker 1: work was done, he mounted his horse for an hour's ride.
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  Speaker 1: He usually rode over the college farm and thoroughly expected it,
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  Speaker 1: then to the dairy and all over the college grounds
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  Speaker 1: to see that everything was going as it should. After breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: he went to his office and gave his attention to
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  Speaker 1: the day's mail, which averaged daily about one hundred twenty
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  Speaker 1: five incoming and eight hundred outgoing letters. Later in the
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  Speaker 1: day he would visit classrooms, inspect the building that was
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  Speaker 1: going on, go to the Great dining hall at dinner,
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  Speaker 1: go to the shops, talk to the students and to
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  Speaker 1: the members of the faculty as he met them. Just
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  Speaker 1: before supper, he would call for his horse again and
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  Speaker 1: go off for an hour's ride or for a hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he would walk rather than ride. While on these
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  Speaker 1: walks he would often run for a couple of miles
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  Speaker 1: at top speed. After supper, there was usually a meeting
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  Speaker 1: of some kind, a committee or faculty meeting or conference
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  Speaker 1: with a delegation of visitors. Chapel exercises devotional character came
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  Speaker 1: at eight thirty, and after that, very frequently there was
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  Speaker 1: an inspection of the dormitories. He had three children, Poorscher,
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  Speaker 1: Booker and Davidson. One of his greatest pleasures was to
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  Speaker 1: take the children for a long walk on Sunday afternoons.
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  Speaker 1: They would trap for mouths through the fields and woods,
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  Speaker 1: gathering flowers or nuts or berries. They studied the trees,
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  Speaker 1: the flowers, and the birds. They waited in the streams,
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  Speaker 1: ran foot races, and played games. Every night after supper
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  Speaker 1: he would rump and play with the children. He would
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  Speaker 1: roll on the floor, let the children ride on his back,
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  Speaker 1: play all sorts of jolly games, or he would tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: He was an excellent storyteller, and it was always a
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  Speaker 1: treat to hear the wonderful tales he could tell. Washington
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  Speaker 1: was married three times. His first wife, as stated in
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  Speaker 1: a previous chapter, was Fannie M Smith of Maiden, who
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  Speaker 1: died in eighteen eighty four, leaving a daughter, Portia. The
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  Speaker 1: second marriage was to Olivia Davidson, who had been a
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  Speaker 1: teacher at Tuskegee from its beginning. She had been of
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  Speaker 1: wonderful assistance to Washington in early days of Tuskegee. She
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  Speaker 1: was the mother of the two boys, Booker Junior and Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: His third marriage was to Margaret Murray of Mississippi, a
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  Speaker 1: graduate of Fisk University and for several years a teacher
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  Speaker 1: at Tuskegee. This marriage occurred in eighteen ninety two. Missus
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  Speaker 1: Washington has had a very useful and distinguished career. No
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  Speaker 1: woman of her race has helped her people so much
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  Speaker 1: in recent years, she will be remembered not merely as
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  Speaker 1: the wife of Brooker Washington, but for her own remar
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  Speaker 1: mamarkable service to her people. Washington was a man of
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  Speaker 1: unusual personal appearance. From the description that James Creeman gave
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  Speaker 1: of him on the occasion of his famous speech in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: it can readily be seen that he was a man
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  Speaker 1: of commanding and striking personality. Wherever he went he attracted attention.
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  Speaker 1: He was an untowering worker. He went at tremendous speed
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  Speaker 1: all the time. He could do as much, as a rule,
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  Speaker 1: as three or four ordinary men. He kept a stenographer
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  Speaker 1: with him all the time. As he went about the grounds,
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  Speaker 1: he would dictate suggestions and ideas for changes and improvements.
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  Speaker 1: He would often awaken his stenographer at night to dictate
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  Speaker 1: a letter, or a speech, or a statement for the papers.
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  Speaker 1: In this way, he never overlooked an important thought or
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  Speaker 1: idea that occurred to him, and his ideas were always
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  Speaker 1: taken down while fresh and vivid in his mind. He
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  Speaker 1: often confounded his faculty by his tremendous energy. He would
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  Speaker 1: call them in and lay out enough work for them
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  Speaker 1: to keep busy for a week, and then almost before
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  Speaker 1: they could get started, the man results. He could work
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  Speaker 1: so fast himself and do so much he never realized
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  Speaker 1: that it took other people longer to finish a task.
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  Speaker 1: He had a very active mind. He could think quickly.
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  Speaker 1: He was also a good judge of men, and knew
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  Speaker 1: the worth of a man almost at sight. When any
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  Speaker 1: subject was presented to him, he would arrive at conclusions
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  Speaker 1: quickly and accurately. As he grew older, he exhibited a
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  Speaker 1: certain amount of absent mindedness, due perhaps to concentration of mind.
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  Speaker 1: He would meet his best friends on the street and
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  Speaker 1: not speak to them. He was so preoccupied by his
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  Speaker 1: thinking that he simply did not recognize folks when he
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  Speaker 1: met them. Washington was a proud and independent man. Many
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  Speaker 1: people thought he was conceited. He was far too great
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  Speaker 1: a man for that. He was not vain, and he
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  Speaker 1: was not ashamed of himself or his race. He held
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  Speaker 1: his head high. He could not be cowled. He had
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  Speaker 1: great self confidence. He knew his abilities and powers and
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  Speaker 1: thought it his duty to appraise them properly. This he
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  Speaker 1: did in a very intelligent and sensible way. But he
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  Speaker 1: was not boastful. In fact, he was very humble. Many
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  Speaker 1: of the things which he said and did that were
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  Speaker 1: often taken for personal vanity and boastfulness were not personal
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  Speaker 1: at all, but were evidences of his pride in his race.
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  Speaker 1: Washington had great sympathy for the unfortunate. He was constantly
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  Speaker 1: bringing up in faculty meeting the case of some poor
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  Speaker 1: negro who was in distress, who couldn't pay the rent,
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  Speaker 1: was without food or clothes, or was in hard look
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  Speaker 1: in some way. He insisted that these people be helped,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of how they came to be in their unfortunate condition.
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  Speaker 1: Scarcely a day passed that he did not give aid
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  Speaker 1: to someone who needed it. There was an old, crack
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  Speaker 1: brained preacher who would come to the institute and speak
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  Speaker 1: by the hour right outside the office, But Washington would
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  Speaker 1: not let him be disturbed and always gave him a
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  Speaker 1: little contribution. There was another old negro who had great
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  Speaker 1: ability in getting contributions from Washington. One day, when Washington
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  Speaker 1: was driving down the main street of Tuskegee behind a
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  Speaker 1: pair of fast and spirited horses, this old man rushed
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  Speaker 1: out into the street and stopped him, as though he
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  Speaker 1: had a matter of the greatest urgency to impart to him.
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  Speaker 1: When mister Washington had with difficulty reined his horses and
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  Speaker 1: asked him what he wanted, the old man said, breathlessly,
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  Speaker 1: I has got a turkey for your Thanksgiving. How much
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  Speaker 1: does it weigh, inquired mister Washington, twelve to fifteen pounds.
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  Speaker 1: After thanking the old man warmly, mister Washington started to
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  Speaker 1: drive on, when the old fell add it, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to borrow a dollar for to fatten your turkey
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  Speaker 1: for you. With the laugh, mister Washington handed the old
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  Speaker 1: man a dollar and drove on. He never could be
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  Speaker 1: made to feel that by these spontaneous generosities he was
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  Speaker 1: encouraging thriftlessness and mendicancy. He was incorrigible in his unscientific
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  Speaker 1: open handedness with the poor, begging older members of his race.
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  Speaker 1: Old Man Harry Varner was the night watchman of the
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  Speaker 1: school in its early days, and a man upon whom
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  Speaker 1: mister Washington very much depended. He lived in the cabin
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  Speaker 1: opposite the school grounds. After hearing many talks about the
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  Speaker 1: importance of living in a real house instead of a
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  Speaker 1: one or two room cabin, old uncle Harry finally decided
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  Speaker 1: that he must have a real house Accordingly, he came
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  Speaker 1: to his implorer, told him his feeling in the matter,
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  Speaker 1: and laid before him his meager savings, which he had
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  Speaker 1: determined to spend for a real house. Mister Washington went
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  Speaker 1: with him to select the lot, and added enough out
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  Speaker 1: of his own pocket to the scat savings to enable
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  Speaker 1: the old man to buy a cow and a pig
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  Speaker 1: and a garden plot, as well as the house. From
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  Speaker 1: then on, for weeks he and old Uncle Harry would
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  Speaker 1: have long and mysterious conferences over the planning of that
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  Speaker 1: little four room cottage. It is doubtful if mister Washington
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  Speaker 1: ever devoted more time or thought to planning any of
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  Speaker 1: the great buildings of the institute. No potentate was ever
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  Speaker 1: half as proud of his palace as Uncle Harry of
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  Speaker 1: his four room cottage, when it was finally finished and painted,
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  Speaker 1: and stood forth in all its glory to be admired
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  Speaker 1: of all men. And booker Washington was scarcely less proud
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  Speaker 1: than Uncle Harry. With Uncle Harry, Varner old Man Branham,
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  Speaker 1: the original cook of the school, and Lewis Adams of
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  Speaker 1: the town of Tuskegee, whom mister Washington mentions and up
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  Speaker 1: from slavery as one of his chief advisers, all unlettered
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  Speaker 1: before the war Negroes. His relationship was always particularly intimate.
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  Speaker 1: These three old men enjoyed the confidence of the white
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  Speaker 1: people of the town of Tuskegee to an unusual extent,
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  Speaker 1: and often acted as ambassadors of good will between the
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  Speaker 1: head of the school and his white neighbors, when from
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  Speaker 1: time to time the latter showed a disposition to look
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  Speaker 1: askance at the rapidly growing institution on the hill beyond
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  Speaker 1: the town. Another intimate friend of mister Washington's was Charles L. Diggs,
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  Speaker 1: known affectionately on the school grounds as old Man Diggs.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Man had been body servant to a Union
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  Speaker 1: officer in the Civil War, and after the war had
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  Speaker 1: been carried to Boston, where he became the butler in
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  Speaker 1: a fashionable back bay family. When mister Washington first visited
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  Speaker 1: Boston as an humble and obscure young Negro school teacher
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  Speaker 1: pleading for his struggling school, he met Diggs, and Digs
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  Speaker 1: succeeded in interesting his implorers in the sincere and earnest
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  Speaker 1: young teacher. When years afterward the institute had grown to
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  Speaker 1: the dignity of needing stewards, mister Washington employed his old
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  Speaker 1: friend as steward of the teacher's home, and all the
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  Speaker 1: years thereafter, hardly a day passed when mister Washington was
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  Speaker 1: at the school without having some kind of pow wow
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  Speaker 1: with old man Digs regarding some matter affecting the interests
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  Speaker 1: of the school. To the despair of his family, Booker
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  Speaker 1: Washington seemed to go out of his way to find
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  Speaker 1: fore long old people whom he could befriend. He sent
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  Speaker 1: provisions weekly to a humble, old black couple from whom
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  Speaker 1: he had bought a track of land for the school.
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  Speaker 1: He did the same for old Unharriot and her deaf,
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  Speaker 1: dumb and lame son, except that to them he provided
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  Speaker 1: fueral as well. On any particularly cold day, he would
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  Speaker 1: send one or more students over to Unharriot to find
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  Speaker 1: out if she and her poor, helpless son were comfortable. Also,
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  Speaker 1: every Sunday afternoon, to the joy of this pathetic couple,
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  Speaker 1: a particularly appetizing Sunday dinner unfailingly made its appearance. And
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  Speaker 1: these were only a few of the pensioners and semi
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  Speaker 1: pensioners whom Booker Washington accumulated as he went about his
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  Speaker 1: kindly way. Washington had the capacity of making friends. He
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  Speaker 1: had the gift of friendship. His white friends were as
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  Speaker 1: numerous and staunched as were those of his own race.
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  Speaker 1: His close friendship with such men as William H. Baldwin, Junior, H. H. Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: and others has already been mentioned. It would be unfair
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  Speaker 1: to him and to them to leave the impression that
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  Speaker 1: their relations were merely those of benefactor and beggar. They
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  Speaker 1: were friends as man to man. Washington and Roosevelt were
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  Speaker 1: friends in the same way. It would be unfair still
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  Speaker 1: to leave the impression that Washington's friends were rich men only,
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  Speaker 1: and men in the North only. This was not the case.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps his strongest friends were in the South, many of
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  Speaker 1: whom were not in the public eye. He himself records
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  Speaker 1: the fact that few men in his entire career were
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  Speaker 1: of such genuine help to him as Captain Howard, conductor
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  Speaker 1: on the w and A railroad. He did not have
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  Speaker 1: an enemy in his own town of Tuskegee. All though
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  Speaker 1: the South were men whom Washington counted among his warmest
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  Speaker 1: personal friends. Among his own people, he was no less
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  Speaker 1: fortunate in his friendships. He knew and loved Moulton and Scott,
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  Speaker 1: and Banks, and carb and Fortune and Scarborough, and a
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  Speaker 1: great host of others. All these were his most loyal
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  Speaker 1: and devoted friends. But none of these were really any
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  Speaker 1: closer to him than old man Diggs, or rufus Heron,
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  Speaker 1: or many a lowly man of Macon County. There was
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  Speaker 1: such sincerity, such a genuineness about this man, that all
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  Speaker 1: true men were drawn to him. Washington had a keen
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  Speaker 1: sense of humor. This is the reason he was always
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  Speaker 1: so even tempered. He kept perfect control of himself at
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  Speaker 1: all times, and it was largely his sense of humor
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  Speaker 1: that enabled him to do so. He saw the ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: side of things. He could tell perfectly side splitting stories,
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  Speaker 1: particularly about his own people. These stories were always clean
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  Speaker 1: and without a sting, and always had some point to them.
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  Speaker 1: He was thoroughly good natured, and everyone in his presence
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  Speaker 1: felt refreshed and happy by reason of having come in
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  Speaker 1: contact with him. He had a strong sense of justice.
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  Speaker 1: He believed the problems of the white race as well
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  Speaker 1: as those of the black race, must be settled on
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  Speaker 1: a basis of justice if they were ever to be
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  Speaker 1: settled right. The fact that he constantly spoke of justice
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  Speaker 1: and fair dealing toward the white race, showed that there
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  Speaker 1: was no color boundary to this great attribute of his character.
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  Speaker 1: He was now quarrelsome he did not hate. He did
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  Speaker 1: not lose his temper when he saw in justice being
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  Speaker 1: done to his people. However, he never did condone such injustice.
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  Speaker 1: He was ever ready to denounce it. He labored unceasingly
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  Speaker 1: to bring about a mutual understanding between the two races,
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  Speaker 1: and to inspire in his own race those principles which
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  Speaker 1: he saw with such clear vision. He said that the
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  Speaker 1: Negro ought to put more time on improving his opportunities
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  Speaker 1: than crying over his disadvantages. He believed that the first
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  Speaker 1: and most important thing was for the Negro to become
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  Speaker 1: well prepared for the ballot, and by and by he
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  Speaker 1: would get it. He argued that the Negroes should work
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  Speaker 1: and save, and study and conduct themselves in the proper way,
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  Speaker 1: and that in course of time recognition would come to them.
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  Speaker 1: Sooner or later the right, the just thing would prevail,
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  Speaker 1: and the important thing for the Negro was to know
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  Speaker 1: he was right. Washington had the courage to denounce those
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  Speaker 1: members of his own race, particularly some of the men
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  Speaker 1: ministers who did not live as they should. This was
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  Speaker 1: a bold thing to do and brought much criticism upon him,
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  Speaker 1: but in the long run it was a great service
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  Speaker 1: to his race and to the whole country. In spite
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that Washington was a man of unusual
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  Speaker 1: health and strength, his hard work and the great responsibilities
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  Speaker 1: he carried began finally to tell on him, but he
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  Speaker 1: kept on. He had wonderful will power, and he would
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  Speaker 1: drive himself to his work from day to day when
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  Speaker 1: other men would have taken to their beds. He could
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  Speaker 1: not admit to himself that he was losing strength. Right
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  Speaker 1: up to the last he did an enormous amount of work.
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  Speaker 1: In the early fall of nineteen fifteen, he went north
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  Speaker 1: to deliver it an address before the National Council of
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  Speaker 1: Congregational Churches held in New Haven, Connecticut. Although he had
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  Speaker 1: not been entirely well for some time, no one had
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  Speaker 1: any idea that he was seriously ill. Shortly after that
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  Speaker 1: the address in New Haven, he collapsed. His friends in
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  Speaker 1: New York City had him removed to Saint Luis Hospital. There,
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  Speaker 1: the physicians made a careful examination and frankly told him
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  Speaker 1: that he was critically ill and could live but a
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  Speaker 1: few hours. When he learned that he must die, he
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  Speaker 1: insisted on starting for home at once. The doctors told
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  Speaker 1: him that he could not go, that it would mean
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  Speaker 1: certain death, that he could not live through the journey.
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  Speaker 1: His reply was, I was born in the South, I
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  Speaker 1: have lived and labored in the South, and I expect
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  Speaker 1: to die and be buried in the South. Arrangements were
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  Speaker 1: hurriedly made for the journey to Tuskegee. No one believed
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  Speaker 1: that he would reach their live. One of the doctors
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  Speaker 1: had said that it was uncanny to see a man
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  Speaker 1: up and about who ought, by all the laws of nature,
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  Speaker 1: to be dead. When they reached the railway station in
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  Speaker 1: New York, a rolling chair had been provided for Washington,
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  Speaker 1: but he refused to use it and walked to the train,
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  Speaker 1: leaning on the arms of his friends. As the train
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  Speaker 1: pulled out and hid it for his beloved Southland, his
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  Speaker 1: spirits began to revive, and he seemed much stronger. He
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  Speaker 1: was determined to beat death in this race. As they
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  Speaker 1: journeyed on, he would ask the names of the stations.
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  Speaker 1: When he was told that they were passing Greensboro, a
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  Speaker 1: triumphant look came into his eyes, Charlotte, Greenville, Atlanta. He
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  Speaker 1: was winning. Finally they came to Cheehaw, the little station
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  Speaker 1: five miles from Tuskegee, the junction point of the railroad
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  Speaker 1: from Tuskegee to the main line. A few more minutes
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  Speaker 1: and he saw the familiar and much loved scenes of
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  Speaker 1: his own Tuskegee. He had won, but his victory was
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  Speaker 1: a short one, for when the sun came up on
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  Speaker 1: the next morning, the fourteenth day of November nineteen fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Booker Washington was dead. End of Chapter fifteen and of
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