Successful Tennessee black educational leaders, such as President William Jasper Hale of Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial School, had to be shrewd and practical men. They operated in an arena where the terrain was rocky, often treacherous – an arena where the rules made solely by white men were seldom justly applied to black undertakings. A ...
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