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Is part of the Clifton Johnson Photograph CollectionPublished on page 349 of Highways and Byways of the South, by Clifton Johnson.A black boy is sitting on a porch, reading to his father, who, according to the back of the photograph, does not know how.
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![[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Illiteracy of the American Negroes compared with that of other nations.](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/d4044215b3732d3992531b50938960d36acfca99.png "[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Illiteracy of the American Negroes compared with that of other nations.")
