The Southern Workman Volume 39 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...thinking classes wish to know what the educated, progressive, and alert Negro leaders in education and social welfare have done, what they are doing, what they plan to do, and how they seek to obtain improved conditions in the home, in the school, in the church, in the community, and in the occupations in which the mass of Negroes exert a telling influence. Year by year the sceptical observers of Negro life and the halfhearted advocates of the gospel of work for all men have been inspired to more generous sympathy and persistent activity by the Hampton Negro Conference, 1910 heart-stories told at the public and round-table meetings of the Hampton Negro Conference, by the Negro men and women who have had the moral courage and stamina to face hostile opposition and counteract the dampening influence of racial inertia in their up-hill work for civic betterment and higher ideals of home, church, and state. The object of the annual Hampton Negro Conference is 120 to lay undue stress upon money-getting schemes or material propsperity. It_is rather to give race workers and their friends throughout the country the benefit of the experiences of those who have succeeded against heavy odds in bringing the Negro into his social and individual heritage by developing his capacity to exercise self-control, direct his powers into channels of useful service, and face the problems of life with courage and unswerving devotion to God and his fellowman. The Russell Sage Foundation, Department of Child Fz;'eg: 'ucBa t ir0e: " Study, has issued an interesting folder outlining a plan to promote educational progress through the United States Bureau of Education, which was established in 1867 and which to-day is engaged in gathering and compiling...