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I'm told that because of the progress blacks had made that a lot of 
influential blacks throughout the country visited Durham. Booker T.
Washinton came here in 1915. DuBois came. One of the founders of the
NAACP came. Booker T. Washinton founded Tuskegee. And all influential
blacks throughout the country came to Durham.

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