Progress and Achievements of the Colored People: Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans; The Most Marvelous in the History of Nations; Their Past Accomplishments, T - Softcover

Kelly Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334681791 ISBN 13: 9781334681790

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Progress and Achievements of the Colored People: Containing the Story of the Wonderful Advancement of the Colored Americans; The Most Marvelous in the History of Nations; Their Past Accomplishments, Together With Their Present-Day Opportunities and a Glimpse Into the Future for Further Developments

HE progressive era aims to set forth the marvel ous achievements of the Negro race in the United States since its emancipation fifty years ago. Its plan is to cover the period of achievements by a series of chapters devoted to the several lines of endeavor. I want especially to commend the chapter on the Education of the Negro.

Education furnishes the standard in terms of which the past progress of the race may be measured and its future progress gauged. Of the many elements which must enter into the final solution of the race problem none will be so important as that of education, whose purpose is to fit the Negro for a useful and honorable place in the complex schemes of American life.

This chapter brings together for easy reference information concern ing the working of Negro institutions in better form and in fuller detail than has before been attempted in a private publication. Figures are taken from the reports of the Bureau of Education, and their accuracy is vouched for by the authority of the government. Each institution listed was visited by a special agent of the Bureau of Education and its work thoroughly examined and analyzed by educational experts. Over three hundred institutions are described, with the account of the equipment, facilities and course of instruction. There are over sixty photographs containing the fullest pictorial illustrations of Negro schools that has ever been made available in book form. This chapter involves, at once, the feature of a treatise and an encyclopedia, while gaining the general view of the education of the Negro as well. The reader may at the same time gain definite information about any particular school in any part of the country.

No one who wishes to keep abreast of the trend of educational move ment of the Negro race, as well as to have at his elbow a compendium of Negro institutions, can afford to be without this work.
Kelly miller. Howard University, Washington, D. C. March 12, 1917.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1334681791
• ISBN 13: 9781334681790
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 492