Where does the Colored race learn all these things? Not in the schools for they are limited, and live too much in the musty past, but the cap-sheaf of the education of the race, its maintenance as a factor in the civilization of the earth, is in their contact with the world, their absorption of the wisdom and experience of the world’s people, due in a great measure to the operators of the Overground Railroad.
Through this source the great race is learning that there is no vocation to which it may not aspire in time to come and the opportunities for intellectual development and its benefits are multiplying rapidly.
Already there is a great sprinkling of dark skins in every avenue of life, commerce, trade, science, and in everything that the white skin aspires to. Look down for a moment, and compare your state with that of the scavenger, the sewer digger, the section hand, and the grades of labor so attractive to foreign elements that come here to scrape up enough to return to their wallow in their various native lands. You are far above these and you belong here and you are rising with the best.
The Story of a Rising Race Told in Pictures
PHOTOGRAPHED FROM LIFE
| Special Collection C | MANUAL TRAINING HOME SCIENCE HOSPITAL PRACTICE DENTAL SURGERY |
PROFESSION OF DENTAL SURGERY
Students practicing in the Dental Infirmary, prior to taking their degree. Howard University, Washington, D. C.
