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Loading content ... Number 187 Atlanta, Georgia January, 1909
The Southern Educational Association Negro Education The
question of Negro education was given a prominent place in the
program of the recent meeting of the Southern Educational
Association in Atlanta, an entire morning session being given to
its consideration. We regret that the local newspaper reports
failed to convey the liberal spirit which characterized the
discussion. The prevailing sentiment was decidedly in favor of
more and better work for the Negroes and there was general
recognition of the sad limitations which characterize their
present public school opportunities. It was held that the burden
of Negro education must fall largely on the Southern people, and
in this connection the missionary schools established and
largely supported by people from the North met with some
criticism. The question was raised as to whether people who
lived in another section of the country could poss