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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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- 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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Tougaloo University* Tougaloo* 502 students enrolled in 1908. The annual expenses are
$22,000. In 1907 the American Missionary Association con¬
tributed $18,500 of this amount; the Slater Fund, $8,500, and
Rev. Frank G. ^VoodwortH, President the })aian(.e was secured from individual contributions.
WHEX the Mississippi Constitution of 1868 made Thorough Instruction in Essentials
V V provision for the establishment of a system of public
schools, the American Missionary Association (Con- The aim of Tougaloo in the industrial department is to give
gregational) had four primary, eight graded and two normal thorough instruction in the essentials of those mdustr.es which
schools for Freedmen in the state, all of them day schools. are most Poetical in a state almost purely agricultural.
The association decided that with the incoming of the free Beginning in the primary- school there has been instruction
schools much of this work would be unnecessary and that it in simPle se'ving and knifc work‘ Each W P*8™* through the
would be wise to establish one strong boarding school for teacher- grammar school is taught in carpentry-, iron and steel forging,
training and industrial work. The property of Gen. Geo. C. masonr.v and mechanical drawing. Each girl has needlework
McKee, of the Union Army, consisting of a “ mansion ” and five and cooking. All the boys and girls devote an hour and a half
hundred acres of land, about seven miles north of Jackson, Miss., dail-v to these studies as regularly as to arithmetic or grammar,
was purchased and became the nucleus of Tougaloo University. Freehand drawing is taught in all grades. The result of this
- Tougaloo ” being taken from the name of the railway station, industrial training is manifest in hundreds of homes. Those
Tougaloo Normal and Manual Training School” was who show special aptitude in any of the industries are allowed to
opened in 1869. by Mr. H. S. Beals, with Rev. Ebenezer Tucker devote a double Period to these studies‘ Thls gives opportunity
as principal. In' 1871 the school was made one of the State for good trade instruction.
normal schools, and an annual appropriation of $2,500 was In the normal and a('adem-v courses are included ^tectural
made, and a Board of Trustees was appointed to work with the drawing- advanced work in wood, iron and steel, dress making,
American Missionary Association. This proved to be an un- millinery, practical housekeeping and nurse training. The
satisfactory arrangement and the aid of the State was withdrawn stud.v of Practical housekeeping began in 1887, in a building
in 1877. Two years later, the State again adopted Tougaloo as known from its original use “ the “ Slave Pen” i(Th,s> “
ii i‘ i • .1 t> i t XT' ~ claimed, was the beginning of this branch of study “ in anv of
a normal school, and appointed a Board of Visitors, an arrange- ,, 6 6
ment which proved satisfactory, and was continued until 1890, ^ie s( bools.
when the new Constitution of Mississippi forbade the appropria- Practical Farm Operations
tion of money to any institutions under denominational direc- There has been a notable increase in the attention paid to
tlon* agriculture in recent years. Practical farm operations have
The Equipment and Workers of Tougaloo been steadily carried on, and the plantation now produces nearly
Under the direction of the American Missionary Association, all the meat, milk and vegetables for the boarding department
Tougaloo University has thirteen buildings of good size, fairly of more than two hundred, in addition to what is shipped to
equipped industrial buildings, and a plant of more than five market. In addition to the field work, there is schoolroom
hundred acres with fair facilities for industrial work. It is work in agriculture.
supported by and under the control of the American Missionary While the industrial work is brought to a high standard, there
Association. It has at present no endowment. The Slater has been a constant raising of the standard of academic work.
Fund gives annually $8,500 for salaries of the teachers in the Academy students are expected to become competent to teach
industrial department. the industries they pursue, and instruction is shaped to this end.
Rev. Frank G. Woodworth, who, at the time of his appoint- The college department was begun in 1897. A Bible depart¬
ment, was a New England Congregational pastor, has been ment for the training of preachers has sent out some leaders of
president of Tougaloo since 1887. There were 27 teachers and marked efficiency.
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