- Title
- Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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- Date
- 1910
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- Creator
- ["Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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The Woman’s American Baptist Home
Mission Society
Headquarters: 2969 Vernon Ave.f Chicago, Ill.
MRS. KATHERINE S. WESTFALL. Corresponding Secretary
EARLY in 1909 the two societies of Baptist women that
for more than thirty years had been engaged in home
mission work among the Negroes were consolidated
under the name of the Woman’s American Baptist Home
Mission Society, with headquarters in Chicago.
The organized work by Baptist women for the Negroes was
begun early in 1877, under the direction of Miss Joanna P.
Moore, who had spent nearly fourteen years at work among the
Negroes of the South along moral and educational lines. Miss
Moore’s work included the establishment of the “ Fireside
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 other.
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 is the missionary
training school for Negro women, inaugurated in 1892 at Shaw
University, Raleigh, N. C., and later located at Dallas, rlex.
Most of the colored workers employed bv the Society are gradu¬
ates 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 this work among
the school, there were employed, at the beginning of 1909,
18 white and 30 colored missionaries in nineteen states.
In 1910 several thousand women in the Women’s Home
Missionaiy Societies in seven of the largest ( hristian denomina¬
tions will take up the study of the Negro problem, “ the needs
of a child race.” The Council of Women for Home Missions,
of which Mrs. George W. Coleman, of Boston, for nineteen years
President of the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission
Societv, is President, has selected as a text-book, From Dark¬
ness to Light,” written by Miss Man' Helm, a member of the
Council, and a representative of the Women’s Home Mission
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The text¬
book, of 200 pages, considers concisely the processes of the evolu¬
tion through which the Negro race has passed from an African
savage to Christian American citizenship. The book contains
seven chapters and is an earnest, discriminating volume.
Florida Institute. Live Oak, Fla.
L. C. Jones, Principal
THIS institution was founded in 1870 by the Negro
Baptists of Florida, and is located on ten acres of land in
Suwanee Countv, 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 was 13 teachers and 315 students,
with 13 students in the theological department.
The annual expenses of $0,500 are provided largely by the
Negro Baptists. The American Baptist Home Mission Society
contributes $500 a year. The courses are primary, normal
preparatory, normal, academic, theological, and industrial.
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