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│ │ │ │ Income │
│ Number │ │ │ for │
│ of │ Counted │ │ Current │Value of
States │Schools │Attendance │Teachers │Expenses │Property
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Total │ 11│ 1,207│ 77│ $37,600│ $316,950
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Alabama │ 1│ 137│ 8│ 4,074│ 25,450
Arkansas │ 1│ 77│ 6│ 1,047│ 6,200
Kentucky │ 1│ 44│ 6│ 2,282│ 12,600
North Carolina │ 4│ 464│ 32│ 22,518│ 219,450
South Carolina │ 2│ 422│ 17│ 3,640│ 29,000
Tennessee │ 1│ 18│ 2│ 500│ 5,500
Virginia │ 1│ 45│ 7│ 3,000│ 18,750
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The conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church own and
maintain 11 schools, of which nine are rated as “larger or more
important.” The total income for current expenses is $37,600, and the
value of property is $316,950. Livingstone College in North Carolina
represents over half of the total of income and property.
The total attendance is 1,207, of whom 923 are elementary, 267 secondary
and 17 college subjects. The teachers are 77 in number, of whom 36 are
men and 41 women.
The general standards of educational work have been good. This is
especially true of the smaller schools.
Lomax Hannon High School, Greenville, Alabama; Walter Institute, Warren,
Arkansas; Atkinson College, Madisonville, Kentucky; Edenton’s Normal and
Industrial College, Edenton, North Carolina; Eastern North Carolina
Industrial Academy, Newbern, North Carolina; Livingstone College,
Salisbury, North Carolina; Lancaster Normal and Industrial College,
Lancaster, South Carolina; Clinton College, Rock Hill, South Carolina;
Dinwiddie Agricultural and Industrial School, Dinwiddie, Virginia.
_Colored Methodist Episcopal Church._—The general board of education of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church has only recently been organized.
Its functions with regard to the schools are advisory. The secretary is,
however, doing much to improve the methods of administration and the
standards of educational work. His point of view is well stated in the
following quotation from his annual report:
The strongest plea for help is first-class work. Our schools must run on
business principles and not on sentiment. We must arrange the
classification and standards of our schools so that they will be each
what its name indicates—not professing to do what we do not do. A good
grammar school is greater than a poor high school; a good academy more
desirable than a sorry college; a well-conducted college is preferable
to a sham university. We must meet present-day needs and demands if we
expect to get money.
A very important fact with regard to this denomination and its schools
is the relation to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church was founded through the missionary interest
of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church in the former slave States.
Through this interest, the Methodist Episcopal Church maintains Payne
College, at Augusta, Ga., and contributes annual sums to several of the
African Methodist Episcopal schools. In the cooperation now being
developed, the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church has been ably
represented by Dr. John M. Moore, the secretary of the mission
department, and Dr. Anderson, the secretary of education.