The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
This clause has been openly and flagrantly violated by the
teachers of Atlanta University. In that institution social
equality has been notoriously taught and practiced, and in that
institution colored teachers are prepared for places in the
public school system of the State. It would matter but little
if only the white children of the professors of the Atlanta
University were thus taught and trained, but the example is
pernicious and is becoming pervasive. Georgia cannot and will
not permit the natural line of demarcation between blacks
and whites to be broken down. She will countenance nothing
now looking to the mixture of the races in the future, to the
misery and possible destruction of both.
The school system of the State provides equal facilities to
blacks and whites, and the Glenn Bill does not impair or
threaten any right or privilege of the Negro. He is being
educated now, by the taxes of white men, to better advantage
than these same white men were educated years ago. It is the
policy, the interest and the safety of Georgia to keep the line
of demarcation between white and black as distinctly marked
as is the Gulf Stream in the waters of the Atlantic. The most
intelligent negroes favor separate schools and teachers of
their own race. Everything is satisfactory, except to certain
fanatical philanthropists and mischievous politicians, and the
present attempt at intimidation will soon fail.
THE ATLANTA (GA.) CONSTITUTION.
It is understood on every hand that public education at the
south would be overthrown in a moment if mixed schools were to
be ordered now. This is a fact with which every one here is
familiar. This being the case, how is it that the professors
of the Atlanta University, who have presumably been among us
for some time, do not understand the situation? For all we know
they may be trying to make martyrs of themselves, but we tell
them plainly that they have struck a blow at Negro education in
the South from which it will not recover in the next quarter
of a century. If they are really the friends of the Negro they
would have waited for time to do its perfect work, but in
jumping ahead of time they are responsible for sending back the
clock. Thus the matter stands.
THE NASHVILLE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN.
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