Twenty-five years in the Black Belt / William J. Edwards, with an introduction by Daniel T. Williams and an epilogue by Consuela Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, William James, 1869-1950.

Series:

Library of Alabama classics.

Library of Alabama Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute (Ala.)--History.

Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute (Ala.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 150 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt is the memoir of the founder and principal of Snow Hill Institute, a 'little Tuskegee,' located in rural Wilcox County, Alabama. . . . Edwards reveals the conditions of blacks and race relations in Alabama between 1890 and 1917 and tells of his determination to uplift his race through education in the years following Reconstruction."" --Florida Historical Quarterly ""This addition to the Library of Alabama Classics has much to recommend it to historians, scholars, and anyone interested in the early history of the African-Americans' struggle to become education, in the years following Reconstruction.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction by Daniel T. Williams; Preface; 1. Childhood Days; 2. Shadows; 3. A Ray of Light; 4. Life at Tuskegee; 5. Reconnoitering; 6. Founding the Snow Hill School; 7. Small Beginnings; 8. Campaigning for Funds in the North; 9. Results; 10. Origin of the Jeanes Fund; 11. Appreciation; 12. Graduates and Ex-Students; 13. The Solution of the Negro Problem; 14. The Greatest Menace of the South; 15. The Negro Exodus; 16. The Negro and the Public Schools of the South; 17. Where Lies the Negro's Opportunity?; 18. School Problems of a Tuskegee Graduate; 19. Benefits Wrought by Hardships; 20. The Negro and the World War; Appendix; Epilogue by Consuela Lee

Notes:

Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Cornhill Co., c1918.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8916-4

OCLC:

897907194