- 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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Clark University. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. Crogman, Lit.D., President
CLARK UNIVERSITY, South Atlanta, Ga., is a Christian
school, founded in 1870, by the Freed men’s Aid Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is open to students
of all classes regardless of sex or
<ч>1ог,
the sole conditions
of admission being a desire to learn, good moral character.
and obedience to
lawfully constituted
»
authority.
V
The buildings and
grounds are located
just south of the eor-
j>orate limits of At¬
lanta. The campus,
1,200 feet above sea
level, is sufficiently
elevated to overlook
the citv, and is beauti-
fullv shaded with oaks
*
and pines.
The school has sent
out from its various
department s 834
graduates, nearly all
of whom are usefully
•
employed. Some of
them are prominent
in educational work.
Rev. Jas. M. Cox is
president of Philander
Smith College, Little Rock, Ark.; Rev. Edward W. Lee is
president of Morris-Brown College, Atlanta; Mr. Reuben S.
Lovinggood is president of Samuel Houston College, Austin,
Tex.; and Rev. Silas A. Peeler is president of Bennett College,
Greensboro, N. C. Six of the graduates of the school are now
members of its faculty. Fullv one third of the teachers in the
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city schools of Atlanta are graduates of Clark University.
Several graduates are in the postal service. None are in prison
or in the chain gang.
A Department of Scientific Farming
Clark University in 1907 established a department of scientific
farming. There are four hundred acres of fertile land, well
watered, within two and a half miles of the city of Atlanta.
Perry C. Parks, a young colored man who graduated from the
agricultural department at Claflin University, and subsequently
took a course at the Wisconsin State University and at the Iowa
State Agricultural College, is superintendent. Three depart¬
ments have been organized: truck farming, dairying, and swine
raising, and other departments will be organized in the near
future. The last legislature of Georgia, 1907, established eleven
agricultural schools in the state, open to white youth, and all
are now in operation. This fact emphasizes the need of this
new department at Clark.
The result of the first year of the farming department at
( lark, as published in the Atlanta Constitution, may not be
without interest. The students have taken care of the herd,
milked and sold in the market of Atlanta 29,200 quarts of
buttermilk, 500 pounds of first-class creamerv butter, and 2,500
pounds of pork.
In addition, the students have grown on the farm of the school
350 bushels of corn, 300 bushels of oats, 80 tons of hay, 1 1 bales
of cotton, 40,000 heads of cabbages, 4,000 dozen bunches of
onions, 125 bushels of sweet potatoes, 45 bushels of white po¬
tatoes, 40 bushels of okra, 60 bushels of lima beans, and 50
bushels of tomatoes.
In speaking of the farm work, Superintendent Parks says:
I here has been an average of twenty-five students in the
tai m department of the school. While the student labor has not
been all that we could wish, it has been much better than we
expected tor the beginning. The most encouraging thing is the
evident growth of the farm-work spirit among the students of
( lark University.”
Farm Conditions among the Negro Farmers in Georgia
ТЬеге
are 224,226 farms in Georgia. Sixty out of every one
hundred of these farms are rented, and fifty out of every one
hundred of the state’s rented farms are in the hands of Negro
tenants. Man\ of these tenants move every year and do not
takv propt r interest in the gardens, orchards, terraces, or premises
°n l*ve* A large proportion of the landlords do not
. < < m to ( arc what their tenants do so long as they pay their rent,
and the tenants in return do as little as they possibly can, because
WM. H. CROGMAN, A M., Lit. D.
President Clark University. South Atlanta, Ga. Five
hundred and seventy-six students and 25 teachers in
1908. Value of property, $240.000. Approximate
annual expenses. $30,000.
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