... Souvenir...
OF
Educational and Benevolent Work
AMONG THE
V
Negroes of the South*
1865 J898.
Compiled in interest of Negro Education
by Rev. W. H. Scott,
Boston, Mass.
GENERAL review in progress of the Negro in
35 years: In'65, 4,000,000 Negroes. In'65
the Negro had nothing. In '98, 10,000,000
Negroes. In '98 between $400,000,000 and
$500,000,000.
In '65 we had no schoolhouses, colleges, seminaries,
nor universities, only a few barracks where a small number
could be taught.
There are in the 16 Southern States with the District of
Columbia, 2,630,331 Negro children between 5 and 18 years.
There are enrolled, 1.267,868.
About 800,000 go to school.
2,000,000 can read.
In '98, 800,000 children
in school, 25,000 schools,
20,000 teachers, 25 colleges,
25 Theological schools, 5
law schools, 5 medical
schools.
In colleges, 8,396 pro¬
fessors and students.
In Theological schools,
755 students, 1,000 college
bred preachers.
Lawyers at the bar,
250.
Physicians at the bedside, 759.
Editors of newspapers, 154.
The ten States which contain the greatest Negro popu¬
lation :
Georgia 858,996
Rev. J. M. Waldron.
Mississippi 744,749
South Carolina 689,141
Alabama 679,299
635.858
562,565
560,192
489,588
430,881
309427
Virginia .
North Carolina .
Louisiana
Texas
Tennessee .
Arkansas
The amount of money
given by each denomination
to educate the Negro in the
last 35 years :
Cong $12,000,000
Meth 6,000,000
Bapt 3,000,000
Presby. . . . 1,250,000
Friends . . . 1,000,000
States .... 1,000,000
Hand .... 1,000,000
Peabody Fund, $2,000,000 (only a part of this fund for
the Negro.)
The South has
The different
represented :
Baptists ....
Methodists .
Catholics
Presbyterians
Disciples ....
Congregatk»nalists .
Episcopalians
Rev. W. H. Scott.
given $85,000,000.
denominations in which the Negro is
1.728,534
1,186,000
121,000
31 .°°o
31.°°°
9.125
4,900
ft*
The Bethel Industrial and Bible
Training School.
t /yf*4" of the Bethel Industrial and Bible Training School is (ist) To provide a
VJ/Uw Vir C'J'WXrC Night School for the hundreds of Negroes of Jacksonville and Duval
County, who are too poor or too old to attend any other school: (2d) To
give young women practical training in Cooking, Sewing, Nursing, Care of the Sick and Housework: (3d) To
provide a Business School, a Free Reading Room, Circulating Library, Bible and Missionary Training
School and Kindergarten for the 15,000 Negroes of Jacksonville: (4thJ To teach the colored people of the
state Economy, Thrift, Social Purity, Temperance, the Laws of Health and Good Citizenship.
'Jn I* sy /| a ♦ $4,000 to complete our twenty-five thousand dollar chapel and schoo]
II Ivv vV f building; $1,200 a year to assist in paying teachers; Reference and
Standard books, (new or second-hand) Magazines and Newspapers for
the Circulating Library and Reading Room; a Piano, an Organ, Typewriting and Sewing Machines, and
Furniture for the School.
Donations of money for building or teachers' salaries may be to MR. H. G. A1RD,
Cashier State Bank of Florida, Jacksonville, Fla., or REV. W. H. SCOTT,
Financial Agent, Chelsea, Hass.
Books, Typewriting and Sewing Machines, etc., may be sent direct to Jacksonville,
from Boston, by The Clyde Steamship Line, Care of REV. J. MILTON WALDRON,
President.