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Introduction
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ful workers of the second generation in the field of Negro education. To the inheritance from predecessors they are adding the results of richly matured experience. Their facts are reliable, their deductions logical. They point the pathway of duty leading to the goal of honorable national peace between the races. They cheerfully contribute the self-sacrifice, patience, heroism, intelligence demanded by the service of leadership.

Respected in the South, trusted in the North, enjoying the confidence of the best Negroes, they present the stories of their several institutions. The eloquent appeal of these united statements commends itself by the very absence of specific demand.

Some of the institutions described herein have made great contributions to the general cause of education quite aside from special race service. The particular interest served by them is national, and their work peculiarly their own.

It is painful that the principals of these great schools are compelled to leave their educational work, spending on the road the time that should be passed in close contact with daily executive duty, humbly seeking the money with which to sustain their several organizations. A partial offset to this loss appears in the education of the North. Their work is not merely in education, for it also includes the solution of the greatest

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