Richard warner

We've got some owners of buildings here who are not willing to put money into them. That's the biggest problem I see right now.

[In Is Higher Education for the Negro Hopeless? Dunbar responds to an essay in which Charles Dudley Warner, a white writer, contended blacks were better suited for industrial training, not higher learning. Dismissing Warner as] one who speaks without authority, ... I believe I know my own people pretty thoroughly. I know them all classes, the high and the low, and have yet to see any young man or young woman who had the spirit of work in them before, driven from labor by a college education.

I love the way it was spelled out. Parents have the questions but maybe don't have time to ask the teacher.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

This would be a pilot project. Once we start the ball rolling, there's grant money out there.