title: The Negro in Virginia
author: Virginia Writers' Project
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  # Negro Progress in Virginia
  
  
  ### Booker T. Washington
  
  
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  THE members of the colored race who live outside of Virginia are beginning to
  grow somewhat jealous of the
  
  
  progress which our race is making in this commonwealth. The Negro race in
  Virginia is going forward, in my
  
  
  opinion, in all the fundamental and substantial things of life, faster than
  the Negro himself realizes and faster than
  
  
  his white neighbor realizes. I say this notwithstanding there are many
  existing weaknesses and much still to be
  
  
  accomplished. This progress which Virginia Negroes are now experiencing is
  owing to two causes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First, they have been fortunate for a number of years in having governors with
  foresight, vision, liberality, and
  
  
  courage; and in having superintendents of education and other state officials
  who have considered the interests,
  
  
  prosperity, and progress of all the people, regardl