| TOPICS |
QUOTES |
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| 1. LIFE AS A STUDENT (INCLUDING LATER,
AT SCOTIA) |
“If there was a little base-ball team, I was the captain.” |
| 2. DESIRE TO GO TO AFRICA |
“They informed me that no openings were available where they could
place Negro missionaries…” |
| 3. HELP FROM A SCHOOLTEACHER IN DENVER |
“Miss Mary Chrisman—a rural school teacher who would often do dressmaking
after school hours…wrote to the teachers asking if they could find a little
girl…and that out of the money she was earning, she would give for that
little girl’s education.” |
| 4. LEAVING HOME |
“We used to have little cracker boxes. We kept our clothing in
them, so my father went down and got me a little trunk.” |
| 5. MARY’S NEW SCHOOL |
“I made so many blunders not knowing whether to use my knife or fork.” |
| 6. THE PEACE MAKER |
“Girls with their problems, difficulties, and disappointments always
would come to me for advice.” |
| 7. ALL TYPES OF WORK |
“I worked in the big kitchen in the morning, getting the coal and starting
the fires.” |
| 8. THE TEACHERS IN SCOTIA |
“It was the first time I had the chance to study and know white people.
They had a mixed faculty at Scotia.” |
| 9. GOING TO EUROPE |
“I wired on to the steamship line stating that I would be late and
asking them to wait for me. It was a daring thing to do…” |
| 10. MEETING THE POPE |
“And strangely, the attendant who was with the Pope put his arms about
my shoulders and said, ‘Oh blessed art thou among women.’” |
| 11. THE POVERTY AND BEAUTY IN EUROPE |
“I felt that the poorest peasants, the poorest share-croppers in Mississippi
and Georgia were much better off than many of the poor whites or rather
waifs I saw.” |
