1896 Letter To Grads Of Hampton Normal And Agricultural Inst. Poughkeepsie, NY
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This is a letter sent by the office of Graduates for the Hampton Inst. Great personal letter sent to encourage graduates and alumni. Gives them some goings on at the Institution as well as anecdotes that will encourage them as well. The letter requests for more people to write in and keep the school posted of what they are doing with their lives.
"You now have joined t...he ranks of the great army that has gone forth from her walls to fight for the right against the wrong, for the light of education against the darkness of ignorance, for all that is uplifting against all that would degrade and pull down."
"Remember that your two races, the Negro and the Indian, are now on trial before the world. There are men who have not much faith in progress of either race. You owe it not merely to yourselves, but to your people, to prove the falsity of such an opinion."