The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.