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the state for black students to receive an education past the sixth-grade level. The first black high school in the state was started in
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The 1911/12 school catalog also espouses a philosophy in harmony with that of Booker T. Washington. Goodloe states that "now and perhaps for many years to come, agricultural and industrial training are plainly indicated for the Negro by the situation itself... the negro boy and girl to love and live
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Southworth continued, "What the negroes need in... judgement more than emotionalism in religion and more even than industrialism in education, is moral teaching and preaching." Goodloe proposed, said
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