A former slave, this man said, “One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
- Booker T. Washington
- Frederick Douglass
- George Washington Carver
- William Still
A former slave, this man said, “One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
Booker T. Washington, renowned educator and founder and first president of Tuskegee Institute.
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