CONTENTS

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[1.]Childhood Days [1]
[2.]Shadows [7]
[3.]A Ray of Light [13]
[4.]Life at Tuskegee [18]
[5.]Reconnoitering [26]
[6.]Founding the Snow Hill School [35]
[7.]Small Beginnings [37]
[8.]Campaigning for Funds in the North [43]
[9.]Results [49]
[10.]Origin of the Jeanes Fund [54]
[11.]Appreciation [56]
[12.]Graduates and Ex-Students [63]
[13.]The Solution of the Negro Problem [77]
[14.]The Greatest Menace of the South [86]
[15.]The Negro Exodus [94]
[16.]The Negro and the Public Schools of the South [100]
[17.]Where Lies the Negro’s Opportunity? [104]
[18.]School Problems of a Tuskegee Graduate [109]
[19.]Benefits Wrought by Hardships [115]
[20.]The Negro and the World War [120]
Appendix [127]