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—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
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—the Dawn of a Triumphant Era. A Handbook for Self-improvement Which Leads to Greater Success
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The first of these was founded at Hampton, Va., in 1891, by Miss Alice
M. Bacon, who was at that time connected with Hampton Institute, though
her hospital was independent and bore the name of “Dixie.” In the same
year the “MacVicar Hospital,” was established as a feature of Spelman
Seminary in Atlanta, and the “Provident Hospital” was instituted in
Chicago. Three years later, in 1894, the “Freedmen’s Hospital” was
started in Washington and the “Lamar Hospital” in Augusta, Ga. Then, in
1895, came the “Frederick Douglass” in Philadelphia; in 1896, the “Sarah
Goodrich” in New Orleans; and in 1897, the “Hospital and Training School
for Nurses” in Charleston. Others have followed, one by one, in other
important centres; Charlotte, Richmond, Columbia, Savannah,
Jacksonville, Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, Raleigh, Tuskegee,
Durham, Atlanta and elsewhere. In all of these hospitals the training
school for nurses is a conspicuous feature, and the nurses who receive
this training show very great efficiency, finding employment largely
among the white people, who frequently prefer them to white nurses with
similar training. Some of these institutions have been built up by the
sheer enterprise of individual colored physicians. A notable example of
this is “St. Luke’s Hospital” at Columbia, founded and maintained in the
face of many discouragements by Dr. Matilda A. Evans, who received her
education at Schofield Institute, Oberlin College, and the Woman’s
Medical College of Pennsylvania. Hospitals of this type are held in high
esteem by the communities in which they are located, and are centers of
beneficence for the country around.
THE THREE IMPORTANT TYPES OF EDUCATION.
In the development of Negro education the various types or kinds of
education have received much discussion and the conflicting claims of
certain type of education have been ably presented by their advocates.
Space does not admit of a full discussion of the conflict which has
raged between the so-called “higher education” and the so called
“industrial education.” The most notable colored men who have taken
sides on this question during the past 25 years have been Dean Kelly
Miller and Dr. W. E. Dubois as advocate of the higher education and Dr.
Booker T. Washington, and Dr. R. R. Moton, as advocate of industrial
education. The result of the various discussions has been that the whole
nation has been convinced that there is, and can be no real conflict
between higher education for the Negro and industrial education. The
conviction is now very general that the Negro needs and should have
every type of instruction. The type of education most needed for the
full development are college education, professional education and
industrial education.