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The Woman's American Baptist Home
Mission Society
Headquarters: 2969 Vernon Ave., Chicago, Ill.
MRS. KATHERINE S, WESTFALL, Corresponding Secretary
EARLY in 1909 the two ocieties of Baptist women that
for more than thil:ty year had been engaged in home
mission work among the Jegroes were con olidated
under the name of the Woman's American Baptist Home
Mission Society, with.headquarters in Chicago.
The organized work by Baptist women for the egroes wa
begun early in 1877, under the direction of Miss Joanna P.
Moore, who had spent nearly fourteen J;ears at work among the
Negroes of the South along moral and educational lines. Miss
Moore's work included the establishment of the "Fire ide
School," in which about ten thousand families are enrolled. •
Its purpose is to pledge parents and children in daily prayer,
Bible reading, and Bible study, and to teach parents and children,
husbands and wives and .neighbors, their duties to each o~er.
Miss Moore, at the age of seventy-seven, is still active in the
work for the mental and moral uplift of the Negroes.
An important feature of the Society's work i the missionary
training school for Negro women, inaugurated in 1892 at Shaw
University, Raleigh, . C., and later located at Dallas, Tex.
Most of the colored workers employed by the Society are graduates
of this school.
The society supports 41 teachers in eight schools and colleges
among the Negroes, the work ranging from the kindergarten
to the college course. Dressmaking, millinery, printing, and
domestic science are taught. Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.,
provides a thorough course in normal training, in addition to a
department of nurse training. In addition to thi work among
the school, there were employed, at the beginning of 1909,
18 white and 30 colored missionaries in nineteen state .
In 1910 several thousand women in the Women's Home
Missionary Societies in seven of the largest Christian denominations
will take up the study of the egro problem, 'the need
of a child race." The Council of Women for Home Missions,
of which Mrs. George W. Coleman, of Boston, for nineteen) ears
President of the Woman's American Bapti t Home Mission
Society, is President, has selected as a text-book, " From Darkness
to LiC1ht" written by Miss Mary Helm, a member of the
to ' •
Council, and a representative of the Women's Home Mi ion
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Society of the Methodi t Epi copal Church South. The tell..1;book,
of 200 pacres. con. id l'S conci ely the proce ses of the evolution
through which the Negro race has pal ed from an African
savage to Christian Am rican citizenship. The book contains
even chapter and i an earnest, di criminating volum .
Florida Institute, Live Oak. Fla.
L. C. Jones, Principal
TillS institution was founded in 1876 by the Negro
Baptist of Florida, and i lo~ated on ten acre of land in
Suwanee County, in the heart of a section of the state
where a majority of the Negroes of Florida live.
The property, valued at $50.000, includes a main building
of eleven rooms. which contains a chapel with a seating capacity
of 200; two dormitories, and the President's house.
FLORIDA INSTITUTE, LIVE OAK, FLA.
In 1908 the enrollment wa 13 teachers and 315 student,
wit.h 13 students in the theological department.
The annual expense of $6,500 are provided largely by the
Negro Bapti t. The American Baptist Home Mis ion Society
contribute $500 a year. The course are primary, normal
preparatory, normal. academic, theological, and indu trial.
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