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"Carl J. Chimi" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:08:11 -0500
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Am I right that the man he put through Yale in later years became a mentor
of Thurgood Marshall?

Carl

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On Jan 18, 2012, at 4:34 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>> 
> 
> "He held himself responsible for the wrong which the white race had done
the 
> black race in slavery, and he explained, in paying the way of a negro 
> student through Yale, that he was doing it as his part of the reparation
due 
> from every white to every black man. He said he had never seen this
student, 
> nor ever wished to see him or know his name; it was quite enough that he
was 
> a negro."
> 
> 

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