Miss Alice Byington has left Hampton Institute $260,750.
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New Orleans has four Negro schools with white teachers and ten with
Negro teachers. It has been decided to place Negro teachers in the new
Thomy Lafon School Annex.
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Tuskegee has received about $400,000 from the Dolger bequest.
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A Negro industrial school is talked of in Pueblo, Col.
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White Sawyer, a Missouri Negro, has lost the suit in which he attempted
to compel the school trustees to transport his children. There is only
one colored school in his township and that is six miles from his home.
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An industrial school is to be founded in Nicodemus, Kansas, a colored
colony planted at the time of the exodus.
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A. B. Johnson, of Mississippi, states that in his own county with less
than 7,000 Negroes of school age over 5,000 have never been to school.
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Effort is being made in Washington, D. C., to remove R. C. Bruce, the
colored superintendent, for alleged incompetency.
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In a talk to white Atlanta ministers a colored preacher asked that
influence be used to improve public school facilities for the Negroes.
He said the Negro school children of Atlanta number 10,000 and he
declared 5,081 of the number are out of school. “The Negroes of this
city pay $10,000 for education of their children,” he stated, “that the
whites get free.”
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The city of Chattanooga has refused to take steps toward establishing a
Negro normal school. It is much needed.
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H. T. Kealing, formerly editor of the _African M. E. Review_, has been
elected president of Western University, at Quindaro, Kansas.
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There are a large number of applicants for the position of president of
the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute at Frankfort.
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The colored Baptist Women’s Convention has voted $15,000 to the
National Training School for Girls in the District of Columbia.
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The Negroes of Georgia have raised $25,000 as a memorial offering at
the quarterly centennial of Morris Brown College.
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The white boys of the Doolittle Public School of Chicago have tried
to get rid of the Negro pupils. The result has been a good deal of
fighting.
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