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BOSTON UNITARIAN CLUB SPEECH 1888 all that could be expected of one who has not had any more chance. Please favor her if you can. Her address is Eva Sneed'2 Brundridge PeO Pike Co. Ala. ·' Please let me have an answer from you by the Ah of Jan. I am sir a student and Friend. G. W. Lovejoy ALS Con. go BTW Papers DLC. ~ Louisiana Lovejoy entered the night school in 1889. She did not graduate. 2No student of this name was listed in the Tuskegee catalogs of 1888-89 or 889-90. A Speech before the Boston Unitarian Club Boston, 1888 On September 7, 186~, the first Negro school was opened in the South. It was opened by a colored woman at Hampton, Virginia. Out of this beginning grew the Hampton Institute which was opened as a higher institution of learning in 1868. There are doubtless many in this audience and many hundreds in Boston who began with the birth of the Hampton Institute and other Southern institutions, to make investment in the Bank of Negro Education. It is but natural that after the lapse of eighteen years, men should begin enquiring whether or not their investment is a safe and wise one; what interest it is paying. Let examples answer there are those present who for a number of years have invested Seventy Dollars a year to pay for the teaching of a young man or woman at Hampton. That Seventy Dollars has met strong and worthy young men and women on the half-way ground. As they entered that institution for a four year's course of training, with nothing in many cases but strong muscles and an earnest heart with which to work for their board while there, this seventy dollars has met them and said ''You do so much for yourself and I will do so much for you.'' It met me when ~ entered that institution fourteen years ago with but fifty cents in my pocket and said, ''I'll provide the chance for 497