Abstract

Higher Education for the Negro

The recent meeting of the Southern Educational Conference at Athens, Georgia, has given rise to much valuable discussion of the various phases of education in the South. If the Conference, had no new theories to advance, it has none the less rendered extremely valuable service in more ways than one and particularly in laying stress upon necessities of the public schools, White and African American. Perhaps the most important of these needs is that of good teachers. Overlooking the educational shortcomings of the bonafide colleges and making every allowance for the crying need of the hour industrial training, it would seem as if there were today a genuine place in the South for two or three institutions for the higher education of the African American.