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man present th t
e are your glory! e
don't promise to 100 every
dye do right no but
pre . te u for ho
are. A 1
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a man. He
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erne you think you
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Booker T. WAShington
bont II av« in Hllk s Ford.
Vilrinill lUfd liv«J 10 II«otM
of t_ most iItfIu�lICiIll
bloc I� of Iris tiIM.
His lIutobiogruplry. Up
F4 Y. d�� t
po�y M kM II child
lind Iris truak 10 t1Clr� II
�1In-1i/� for Irimself lind Iris
peopk.
Therr been muclr ron-
Waslr-
ington's kkos about iclr -
kind of mUCtltionll1 training
would �I �t lire M«Is of
tM �rity of � ks lit tlull
time. His basic �l' if
that, if b ks iJ«1I1M eco­
nomically secure through
busin and agriculturat en­
terprises, then th« problems
Trgllrdin civil rights uld
tend to tak« carr of them-
I
p
r
beginning of freedom, to 33.3
per cent in 1910. In the Unit-'
ed Stat hole the
number of e roes ho
cou d neither r nor rite
as at thi time 30." per cen
of th e ro popu -
tion.
A further evidence of the
progf hich egro edu -
tion h d mad in forty-seven
year i the number of .
chool maintained for
oes in different parts of
the country. ot all of th ,
ho ever, ere located in the
Southern Stat . Of the 141
colored high schoo support-
ed by tat d muni .
ti ,reported by the commis-
loner of education in 1910,
there ere in Alabama, 6 in
AT , I in DeIa are, 1 in
th District of Columbi ,6 in
florida, 11 in Georgia, 7 in
Kentuc y, 8 in . i ippi, 1
in aryland, 21 in Mi ouri,
3 in 0 I OIDa," in South
Carolina, . 7 in Tenn , 36
in Te ,5 in Vir inia, 5 in
est Virgmia. Besides these
there ere high school for
e oes in other ates: Illi-
no' 4, Indiana 6, I,
Ohio 2, Pennsylvania 1.
Although the tatisti in­
di te that cgro illitera y
h been steadily reduced un­
til at the pr nt time more
than to-thirds of the whole
egro population i able both
to read and write, thi much
could not have been om-
plished un1 the or of th
public schools had been sup­
p emented by th t of 0 er
schools maintained by private
philanthropy.
It is afe to say that, of the
34,000 egro teacher no
carrying on tbe or of th
publi schoo in th South,
th majority, if no all, of
th ho h ve obt . ned any-
thin li e an dequate train­
ing for their or, ha been
edu ted in school th t have
been maintained, in hole or
in part, by priv te philan­
thropy. The number of th
schools has gro n teadily
ith the gro h of t publi
schoo and especially in tee­
en years there e prung
up' . multitude of smaller
c demie nd o-called
AY 13 -19, 1
pie, in the 189 hool refer­
red to in the foregoin
graph, n Iy 60 per cent are
in the elementary
only 5.5 per cent are pursui
TYe
o JO
1 the country
tom nd distracted . th
political contro em. nd
public sentiment indif-
ferent hen it no tile
egro education. All of
th fact hou1d be consid­
ered hen an attemp is made
to estimate the pro of
egro edu ion duri th
early years and ince,
otwith tandin th dif-
ficulti egro edu nion has
m de progr from the first.
In 1871, ben the first gener­
al ummary of the statistics
of edu tion in the Southern
States as m de, it appeared
th t there ere 571,506 color­
ed children and 1,827,139
white children enrolled in the
public hool of the ixteen
former slave tates and the
District of Columbia. By
1909 the number of children
enrolled in the colored
chool h d increased to
1,712,137. Thi as, ho -
ever, but 56.34 per cent ofth
to aJ co ored hool popula-
e n hile the illiter of
th egro in the Sout em
States has n reduced from
somethin like 95 per cent of
the hole population, at the
Qwstions:
fi lint
prr«din ?