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Helping Others
Washington describes the leaner stretches of his Hampton years — a vacation spent waiting tables to pay off a debt to the school — then his return to Malden to teach and help his family and community, closing with a memory of Ku Klux Klan violence he witnessed there during Reconstruction.
Vacation work and school debts at HamptonReturning to Malden to teach and support his familyWitnessing Ku Klux Klan violence as a young manContrast with the changed South of Washington's later life