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Includes mention of prominent black leaders and companies including James E. Shepard, C. C. Spaulding and his North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, C. C. Amey, and R. B. Fitzgerald; also acknowledges support from white sympathizers, especially the Duke family and Trinity College (later Duke University).

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

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Transcribed from: The upbuilding of Black Durham : The success of the Negroes and their value to a tolerant and helpful southern city / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. p. 334-338 : ill, ports. Originally published in World's work, vol. 23 (Jan. 1912).

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