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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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as a part of their instruction. The girls spend a portion of one Bred Negro “ The Negro Common School “ The Negro
year, during the normal course, in the “ Model Home,” where Artisan “ The Negro Church “ Crime among Negroes
they put into practice all the principles of housekeeping in which “ The Health and Physique of the Negro American “ Eco-
they have been instructed. There is increasing demand for nomic Cooperation among Negro Americans. ”
graduates of Atlanta University as teachers in industrial schools, Under the direction of Prof. W. E. Burkhardt DuBois is
and many of the graduates hold important positions in such published the annual series of these valuable sociological studies
schools throughout the South. This industrial training is given which have brought Atlanta University out as a world-wide
only in connection with the academic work. Every student, representative of students of sociology.
before graduation, is required to spend at least one year — his The opportunity for effective service by Atlanta University
senior year — as a member of the boarding department. This is limited bv the meager endowment received for the work,
association of the students with each other, and with the teachers The total assets, including the buildings and invested funds,
in the school family, is considered an important feature in their amounts to about $350,000, of which $72,000 is in the form of
right education, and is a powerful influence in the lives of the endowment. The annual budget is about $00,000, and the
students, arousing them to the best that is in them, when other university is dependent upon gifts from friends for raising nearly
influences fail. $40,000 of this amount. The imperative need is such an en-
Atlanta University is more than a mere institution of educa- largement of its present insufficient endowment as shall, in a
tion, it is a home. The school “ Home ” is a center of the school large degree, save it from the necessity of incessant and harassing
influence. From the first, among the ideals entertained by the solicitation of money for running expenses, and will enable it to
university is one that may be designated as “ Home Building.” strengthen and enlarge its work, by enlarging its facilities and
Officers and teachers kept before the minds of students and their teaching staff. Legacies for the endowment of current expenses
parents the desirability of securing land and homes, and when, should be made payable to the trustees of Atlanta University in
at the beginning of a summer vacation, students by the scores Atlanta, Ga., and witnessed by three persons. Checks, money
were sent out to teach school in small towns and rural districts, orders, or registered letters may be sent to President Edward
among other injunctions it was impressed upon them to en- T. Ware, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., and they will receive
courage and assist the people among whom they were to labor prompt acknowledgment.
to huv land and make themselves homes. The effect of this -
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policy is shown in the statistics of Negro property in Georgia, and Mount Mf. Colored Institute, Waugh, Ala.
while, nf emirspj other influences in addition to Atlanta Umver-
sity have been at work in this direction, yet the influence of this Founded 1881. Seven teachers and 312 students in 1908.
institution has been a potent factor in the increase of property This institution is the outgrowth of Tuskegee Institute, but is
from nearly nothing in 1860 to a real value of more than thirty- chartered under the laws of Alabama. The amount needed for
five million dollars at the present time. annual expenses is $2,500, secured from contributions from the
friends in the North and from friends of the work in the com-
Studying Social Problems munity where the school is located.
The university has become a center for careful, earnest, and -
minute study of Negro problems. A department of social Sterling Industrial College, Greenville, S. C.
inquiry has been established, and an annual conference has been D M Minus President
held to study problems of the Negro. The social studies reveal- -
ing actual conditions among the Negroes have included the Founded 1896. Property, $11,000. Income for current ex¬
following topics since 1896: penses, 1907, $3,000. Eight teachers, 185 students. Has a
“ Mortality among Negroes in Cities “ Social and Physical summer school attended by farmers from three counties. The
Condition of Negroes in Cities”; “ Some Efforts of Negroes for school draws its pupils mostly from the farming class, and
Social Betterment The Negro in Business “ The College seems to be an outgrowth of natural demands.
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