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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 80



15. Maud Wilder Goodwin, “Education of Our Colored Citizens,” Popular Science Monthly (April 1893): 789-98.


Essay urging the provision of educational opportunities to African Americans. Mr. Stone has marked this passage. “Once let a negro own his ground and he is indeed free; once let him own a mortgage on a white man’s farm and he is the master of the situation.”