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dispatch 07 · 29 COMPROMISE A letter went out under Dr. Mark A. Brown's name banning bonnets, du-rags, and bedroom shoes from class. The policy behind it turned out broader, and more exempted, than either the coverage or the outrage. The argument underneath it is the same one Booker T. Washington opened from a Tuskegee stage in 1895.

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