Up From Slavery

Booker demands cleanliness from his students. What one item does he insist everyone have?

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Washington insisted that every student use a tooth-brush, explaining the civilizing influence of such a device: "I have noticed that, if we can get a student to the point where, when the first or second tooth-brush disappears, he of his own motion buys another, I have not been disappointed in the future of that individual" (66).

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