“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.”

Interviewed by Frank Parker Stockbridge, "The Man Who Made Radio Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=bCoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32, Popular Science Monthly, May 1929

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