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Mr. Washington was a great believer in the sweet potato; He personally supervised the work of preparing for sweet potato planting

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Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization, by Emmett J.Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe; with a preface by Theodore Roosevelt.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American College Presidents
  2. African American College Students
  3. African Americans
  4. Farming
  5. Sweet Potatoes
  6. Tuskegee Institute
  7. Washington, Booker T., 1856 1915

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