An institution maintained exclusively for colored young men. It was
founded in 1867, by the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen.
It has sixteen teachers, over two hundred students and property
valued at nearly $300,000.
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The names and locations of these homes are as follows: Adeline Smith
Home, Little Rock, Alabama; Boylan Home, Jacksonville, Florida; Thayer
Home, Atlanta, Georgia; Haven and Speedwell Home, Savannah, Georgia;
Peck Home, New Orleans, Louisiana; Rust Home, Holly Springs,
Mississippi; Kent Home, Greensboro, North Carolina; Allen Industrial
Home and School, Asheville, North Carolina; Browning Industrial Home,
Camden, South Carolina; New Jersey Home, Morristown, Tennessee; Eliza
Dee Home, Austin, Texas, and King Industrial Home, Marshall, Texas.
The society began its work in 1881, when Thayer Home was built at Clark
University, Atlanta, Georgia. The society is divided into “bureaus”
consisting of a secretary and assistants who are white volunteer
workers. “Each bureau has the responsibility in its own field of
executing the plans and applying the funds as ordered by the general
board of managers.” The central office is at Cincinnati, Ohio.
_Presbyterian Board._—The Board of Missions for Freedmen of the
Presbyterian Church owns and supervises 85 schools for colored people.
Of these 32 are large important institutions. Through wise
administration and fairly adequate equipment, they are meeting the needs
of their communities or working successfully in that direction. Five of
them are seminaries for colored girls. The educational work and general
administration of these seminaries are excellent. They are among the
best schools for colored people in the South. Two are boarding schools
for young colored men, the others are boarding and day schools for boys
and girls.
A summary table of these schools follows: