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There were more indications by the mid-twentieth century.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.

But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.