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JERUEL ACADEMY, ATHENS, GA.
Founded in 1886 and owned by the Jeruel Baptist Association. Seven teachers and
283 students enrolled in 1908. Property valued at $10.500. Free of debt.
Jeruel Academy. Athens. GaRev.
John H. Brown, Principal
LARGE part of the work of the American Bapti tHorne
Mis ion Society has been in the direction of timulating
self-help in the Negroes. A majority of the school
aided by the Society are owned and managed b • :\fe<1ro bodie
in the different tates. They repre ent what ha been called
"Self-Help in Education." The men and women who teach
in them are for the mo t part trained in the ociety's larger
in titutions; they receive a mall annual <1rant from the ociety,
and an occasional " lift" in the erection of building , and they
have the cooperation and advice that the officer of the ciety
can give, but the l~rger hare of the burden re t upon the
Negro boards..
The Trustees are Negro Baptists
Jeruel Academy, located at Athen , Ga., i a i)'pical chool
of thi cia . It wa establi hed in 18 6 by the Jeruel Bapti t
A ociation and is owned by the A sociation. The tru tee are
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egro Bapti. t. " They are not chool men," a.y Dr. Sale,
" but the believe in the edu ation of their children and they
believe that Jeruel Academy i the in titution that will make
the children better on and daugbter , men, women, citizen ,"
and they are, a one tru tee said, "hand , beel , and toe for
the education of our young folks."
The bool property include two frame building, one large
chool building, u ed for recitation room with the boys' dormitory
above, and the girls' dormitory, with the dining hall and
kitchen. ix of the even teacher are <1raduate of home
mi ion chools. Rev. John H. Brown, A.M., who has been
principal inee 1893, i a graduate of Atlanta Baptist College,
and his wife was trained at Spelman Seminary. The approxi-
PRINCIPAL REV. JOHN H. BROWN AND FAMILY
Jeruel Academy, Athens, Ga.
mate annual expen e of Jeruel are $5,000, about one half
being requir d ~or alari . In 1907, the American Bapti t
Home Mi ion ociety gave $500. The r mainder was received
from the egl'O Bapti t ociation and otber friend. Jeruel
Academy was the pioneer econdary hool of Georgia for
egro boy and girl .
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