Frazier's study led him to the significant of "Negro Business" and its impact on the black middle class. ... The motivation that guided the missionaries and philanthropists in their approach to educating the freedmen was the ideal of industrial education which included the training of labor workers. ... It was hostile to any Negro who showed independence in his thinking in regard to racial and economic problems. ... Negro teachers were placed upon a "black list" indicating that they were not fit to teach in Negro schools because they did not have the "right" ...

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