1 The young men and women were determined to secure an education at any cost.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 2 At the beginning of this school there were about twelve strong, earnest men and women who entered the class.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 3 With this end in view men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 4 I derived a great deal of benefit from the studies which I pursued, and I came into contact with some strong men and women.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 5 The efforts of some of the men and women, who in many cases were over fifty years of age, to learn, were in some cases very pathetic.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 6 The history of the world fails to show a higher, purer, and more unselfish class of men and women than those who found their way into those Negro schools.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 7 In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 8 While among those two classes there were many capable, earnest, godly men and women, still a large proportion took up teaching or preaching as an easy way to make a living.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 9 The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 10 There were so many of the older boys and girls in the town, as well as men and women, who had to work in the daytime and still were craving an opportunity for an education, that I soon opened a night-school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 11 As I now recall the scene of my first year, I do not believe that one often has the opportunity of coming into contact with three or four hundred men and women who were so tremendously in earnest as these men and women were.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 12 I have spoken of my admiration for General Armstrong, and yet he was but a type of that Christlike body of men and women who went into the Negro schools at the close of the war by the hundreds to assist in lifting up my race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 13 One might have removed from Hampton all the buildings, class-rooms, teachers, and industries, and given the men and women there the opportunity of coming into daily contact with General Armstrong, and that alone would have been a liberal education.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 14 As soon as the coloured people found out that he could read, a newspaper was secured, and at the close of nearly every day's work this young man would be surrounded by a group of men and women who were anxious to hear him read the news contained in the papers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 15 At Hampton it was a standing rule that, while the institution would be responsible for securing some one to pay the tuition for the students, the men and women themselves must provide for their own board, books, clothing, and room wholly by work, or partly by work and partly in cash.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 16 He conceived the idea of starting a night-school in connection with the Institute, into which a limited number of the most promising of these young men and women would be received, on condition that they were to work for ten hours during the day, and attend school for two hours at night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 17 General Armstrong had found out that there was quite a number of young coloured men and women who were intensely in earnest in wishing to get an education, but who were prevented from entering Hampton Institute because they were too poor to be able to pay any portion of the cost of their board, or even to supply themselves with books.
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