A splendid girls’ school. Founded in 1866. Owned and supported by the
Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church. Teachers,
20; Attendance, 300; Property, $65,000.
]
Barber Memorial Seminary, Anniston, Alabama; Miller Memorial School,
Birmingham, Alabama; Arkadelphia Academy, Arkadelphia, Arkansas; Cotton
Plant Academy, Cotton Plant, Arkansas; Boggs Academy, Keyesville,
Georgia; Gillespie Normal Academy, Cordele, Georgia; Haines Institute,
Augusta, Georgia; Hodge Academy, Washington, Georgia; McClelland
Academy, Newman, Georgia; Seldon Normal and Industrial School,
Brunswick, Georgia; Union Point Normal and Industrial School, Union
Point, Georgia; Bowling Green Academy, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Free
Memorial Institute, Camp Nelson, Kentucky; Mary Holmes Seminary, West
Point, Mississippi; Albion Academy, Franklinton, North Carolina; Biddle
University, Charlotte, North Carolina; Mary Potter Memorial School,
Oxford, North Carolina; Scotia Seminary, Concord, North Carolina; Alice
Lee Elliott Memorial School, Valliant, Oklahoma; Andrew Robertson
Institute, Aiken, South Carolina; Brainerd Institute, Chester, South
Carolina; Coulter Memorial School, Cheram, South Carolina; Goodwill
Parochial School, Mayeville, South Carolina; Harbison College, Irmo,
South Carolina; Kendall Institute, Sumter, South Carolina; Mayers
Industrial School, Knoxville, Tennessee; Newton Normal School,
Chattanooga, Tennessee; Swift Memorial School; Mary Allen Seminary,
Crockett, Texas; Danville High and Industrial School, Danville,
Virginia; Ingleside Seminary, Burkville, Virginia; Lincoln University,
Lincoln, Pennsylvania.
_Protestant Episcopal Boards._—The Domestic and Foreign Missionary
Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church has general supervision of
all of the Episcopal schools. The American Church Institute for Negroes,
a subordinate organization to the society, was incorporated in 1906, for
the purpose of assisting in the religious education of Negroes. Its
first secretary was the Rev. Samuel H. Bishop, whose faithful service
was ended by death in 1914. The Rev. Robert W. Patton, the secretary of
the Fourth Provincial Synod, now gives partial time to the raising of
funds and the supervision of the eight schools receiving aid from the
institute. These schools are as follows:
St. Augustine’s School, Raleigh, N. C.
St. Paul’s Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Va.
Bishop Payne Divinity School, Petersburg, Va.
St. Athanasius’ School, Brunswick, Ga.
Vicksburg School, Vicksburg, Miss.
St. Mark’s School, Birmingham, Ala.
St. Mary’s School, Columbia, S. C.
Fort Valley School, Fort Valley, Ga.
The church, through the Missionary Society, appropriates about $50,000
annually for the education of Negroes in the United States. These gifts
are made on the suggestion and advice of the bishops of the various
dioceses. Appropriations for the larger institutions are sent directly
to their treasurers. The small parochial schools are aided through the
bishops of their diocese. These are frequently only little groups of
children taught in the church. A state summary of the Episcopal schools
follows: