1 We gave our Hampton friends, especially General Armstrong, a cordial welcome.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 2 From fearing Mrs. Ruffner I soon learned to look upon her as one of my best friends.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 3 Some of his white friends who saw the incident criticised Washington for his action.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 4 Mackie, the head teacher to whom I have referred, proved one of my strongest and most helpful friends.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 5 , gifts from our friends, but we have no suitable place for them, and we have no suitable reading-room.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 6 Perhaps I might add here that for fourteen years these same friends have sent us six thousand dollars a year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 7 I have further sought to have them feel that I am at the institution as their friend and adviser, and not as their overseer.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 8 My good friend, Mrs. Ruffner, to whom I have already referred, always made me welcome at her home, and assisted me in many ways during this trying period.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 9 In Birmingham, England, we were the guests for several days of Mr. Joseph Sturge, whose father was a great abolitionist and friend of Whittier and Garrison.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 10 I have also advised them, where no principle is at stake, to consult the interests of their local communities, and to advise with their friends in regard to their voting.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 11 From the first, I have advised our people in the South to make friends in every straightforward, manly way with their next-door neighbour, whether he be a black man or a white man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 12 At the time of the visits of these Hampton friends the number of teachers at Tuskegee had increased considerably, and the most of the new teachers were graduates of the Hampton Institute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 13 There must have been not far from a hundred persons engaged on each side; many on both sides were seriously injured, among them General Lewis Ruffner, the husband of my friend Mrs. Viola Ruffner.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 14 My good friend Mr. Garrison kindly took charge of all the details necessary for the success of the trip, and he, as well as other friends, gave us a great number of letters of introduction to people in France and England, and made other arrangements for our comfort and convenience abroad.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 15 Perhaps I might add right here, what I hope to demonstrate later, that, so far as I know, the Tuskegee school at the present time has no warmer and more enthusiastic friends anywhere than it has among the white citizens of Tuskegee and throughout the state of Alabama and the entire South.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 16 I noted that just in proportion as we made the white people feel that the institution was a part of the life of the community, and that, while we wanted to make friends in Boston, for example, we also wanted to make white friends in Tuskegee, and that we wanted to make the school of real service to all the people, their attitude toward the school became favourable.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 17 In the midst of all the difficulties which I encountered in getting the little school started, and since then through a period of nineteen years, there are two men among all the many friends of the school in Tuskegee upon whom I have depended constantly for advice and guidance; and the success of the undertaking is largely due to these men, from whom I have never sought anything in vain.
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