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. ... The policy of the Rosenwald Fund was to back aspiring Negroes in the fields of art, literature, science and in the teaching profession. ... They were self-conscious of their "culture" which consisted of the enjoyment of English and in Louisiana, French classical literat...

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