My experience is that there 8STREET LATINAS is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward 8STREET LATINAS merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found. I have found, too, that it
is the visible, the tangible, 8STREET LATINAS that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more 8STREET LATINAS potent than Pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
The same principle of industrial education has been carried out in the building of our own wagons, carts, and buggies, 8STREET LATINAS from the first. We now own and use on our farm and about the school dozens of these vehicles, and every one of them has been built by the hands of the students. Aside from this, we help supply the local market 8STREET LATINAS with these vehicles. The supplying of them to the people in the community has had the 8STREET LATINAS same 8STREET LATINAS effect as the supplying of bricks, and the man who learns at Tuskegee
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to build and repair wagons and carts is 8STREET LATINAS regarded as a benefactor by both races in the community where he goes. The people with whom he lives and works are going to think twice before they part with such a man.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his 8STREET LATINAS way regardless of his race. One man may go into
a 8STREET LATINAS community prepared to supply the people there with an analysis of 8STREET LATINAS Greek sentences. The community may 8STREET LATINAS not at that time be prepared for, or feel the need of, Greek analysis, but it may feel its need of bricks and houses and wagons. If the man can supply 8STREET LATINAS the need for those, then, it will lead eventually to a demand 8STREET LATINAS for the
first product, and with the demand will come the ability to appreciate it 8STREET LATINAS and to profit by it.
About the time that we succeeded in burning our first kiln 8STREET LATINAS of bricks we began facing in an emphasized 8STREET LATINAS form the objection of the students to being taught to work. By