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September 6, 1899
The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado
What is this article about?
Negro schools in the South focus on practical industrial education, training students in trades and domestic skills, leading to increased employment in fields like carpentry and making it harder for white workers, as reported by Atlanta Chronicle.
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NEGROES TAKING TRADES.
Industrial Teachings In the Schools Are Beginning to Show Results.
Negroes in the south are rapidly filling the trades. As carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, blacksmiths and wheelwrights they are growing more and more numerous and making it difficult for white men to prosper in these fields of labor.
A glance at the white schools and the negro schools of the south will show that the negro schools are teaching their pupils more of the practical needs of life and fitting them to earn a livelihood better than the white schools are. For every white technological school the negroes have half a dozen with technological and industrial features. Every year young men are being turned out of the negro schools in the south who have been taught carpentry, shoemaking, printing, the general use of tools and scientific farming, in addition to the usual academic courses, and young women who are taught cooking, washing, sewing, dressmaking, nursing and housekeeping.
When a young negro man or woman leaves any one of more than a dozen schools in the south he or she is equipped for earning a livelihood and for advancing the standard of the race. Our people need rousing to the importance of technological and industrial education. We want educated hands as well as educated heads.
Atlanta Chronicle
Industrial Teachings In the Schools Are Beginning to Show Results.
Negroes in the south are rapidly filling the trades. As carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, blacksmiths and wheelwrights they are growing more and more numerous and making it difficult for white men to prosper in these fields of labor.
A glance at the white schools and the negro schools of the south will show that the negro schools are teaching their pupils more of the practical needs of life and fitting them to earn a livelihood better than the white schools are. For every white technological school the negroes have half a dozen with technological and industrial features. Every year young men are being turned out of the negro schools in the south who have been taught carpentry, shoemaking, printing, the general use of tools and scientific farming, in addition to the usual academic courses, and young women who are taught cooking, washing, sewing, dressmaking, nursing and housekeeping.
When a young negro man or woman leaves any one of more than a dozen schools in the south he or she is equipped for earning a livelihood and for advancing the standard of the race. Our people need rousing to the importance of technological and industrial education. We want educated hands as well as educated heads.
Atlanta Chronicle
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Negro Education
Industrial Training
Southern Schools
Trades Competition
Technological Schools
Where did it happen?
The South
Story Details
Location
The South
Story Details
Negro schools in the South emphasize industrial and technological education, producing skilled workers in trades like carpentry and farming, outpacing white schools and enabling racial advancement through practical skills.