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Article: "Louisville May Get Berea"
creator:
Freeman, The (Indianapolis, IN)
subject:
Day Law
subject:
Waterson, Henry, 1840-1921
subject:
Frost, William G. (William Goodell), 1854-1938
description:
Article from The Freeman (a paper that is no longer in print from Indianapolis, IN). Newspaper article from "The Freeman" regarding the Day Law and Berea College
description:
Transcript: LOUISVILL MAY GET BEREA COL. WATTERSON HIGLY FAVORS INSTITUTION MUST HAVE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION There Lies the Future of the Negro Argues the Kentucky Press Revival of Courtesy to Women's Society Notes. Special to The Freeman. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec . 15. From all indications Louisville will most likely get the new Jim Crow Berea. The establishment of such an institution has been strongly endorsed by Mr. Henry Watterson of the Courier-Journal, that is, that Kentucky and Louisville need and industrial institute. Three editorials have appeared from the pen of Mr. Watterson, and the last one calls upon the white business men of Louisville to subscribe at once their pro rata funds for the establishment of an industrial institution, quite such a one as Tuskegee. The future of the Negro in Kentucky, argues the press of the State, lies in the fact that the brother must obtain an industrial education. The Louisville Times claims that such an education is of very pertinent interest to the whites of the South and Kentucky. It goes without saying that the best interests of one can not be divorced from the other. We are in the same boat and must oar together, as Col. Watterson puts it. But on the other hand, there comes a howl from Negroes in this city and from all over the State, that they will have nothing to do with Jim Crow school under Prof. W. M. G. Frost. This comes from those Negroes who have been students of Berea and were put out by Frost and Claim that he was the cause of the passage of the Day bill which for- bids Negroes and whites attending Berea. Then, too, it is claimed that the school will only teach industrial pursuits and allow the brain to go sluggish. Nothing, it is said, will be done for the higher development of the mind or soul. This is causing a storm of bitter denunciation to come from Negroes in all sections of the State. The fact that Berea was established for the higher training of the Negro, and then it taken from them and giving a substitute education, is also causing disagreement. Your correspondent is going in this case as he did during the last National Teachers Association, publishing both sides of the question. At that time we sent out to the Associated Press the Berea side by President Frost as well as Prof. F. L. Williams, a graduate of Berea, who told how Prof. Frost in his opinion, caused the brothers to be barred from the school. We shall watch with interest the growth of the New Berea, as it is now the most vital question in the State of Kentucky.
publisher:
Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College, Berea, Ky
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image/jp2
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jp2
identifier:
BC-0303-MISC-00001p1
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source:
Berea College Records: RG 03/3.03: William Goodell Frost Papers. Berea College Special Collections and Archives
language:
en-us
relation:
Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College, Berea, Ky
rights:
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