“While at Hampton I resolved, if God permitted me to finish the course
of study, I would enter the far South, the black belt of the Gulf
States, and give my life in providing as best I could the same kind of
chance or self-help for the youth of my race that I found ready for me
when I went to Hampton, and, so, in 1881, I left Hampton and went to
Tuskegee and started the Normal and Industrial Institute.”
Mr. Washington literally worked his way through college. He helped
unload a vessel to get money to reach Hampton, and while there did odd
jobs of manual work, and acted as janitor.
Referring to another American of another race, President Woodrow Wilson
stands first, in reality he is the first gentleman in the land.