In this connection also let me call attention to the reports of J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent of Education, and Charles L. Coon of North Carolina, for a broad view of Negro education.
I have already shown how the South and the North came together in educational relationships in the Southern Education Board. I have pointed it out as a tendency toward nationalisation in educational interests. But the Southern Education Board, while it contained both Northern and Southern white men, was primarily interested in white education and contained no Negro members. At the time the board was organised, an active interest in the Negro would have defeated, in part at least, its declared purpose.
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| Photograph by Curtiss Studio | |
| S. C. MITCHELL of Richmond College; President of the Coöperative Education Association of Virginia. | JUDGE EMORY SPEER of Georgia. After two terms in Congress he was appointed to the Federal bench. |
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| Photograph by Sol. Young | Photograph by Rockwood |
| EDGAR GARDNER MURPHY of Alabama, member Southern Education Board; author “Problems of the Present South.” | DR. H. B. FRISSELL Principal Hampton Institute and member of Southern Education and Jeanes Fund Boards |
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| Copyright, 1907, by Pach Bros. | Photograph by Wharton & Tyree |
| R. C. OGDEN of New York, President of the Southern Education Board. | J. Y. JOYNER Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina. |
The South, the North, and the Negro at Last Work Together
Since that time another highly significant movement has arisen. In 1907 Miss Jeanes, a wealthy Quakeress of Philadelphia, gave $1,000,000 for the encouragement of Negro primary education. She placed it in the hands of Dr. H. B. Frissell of Hampton and Dr. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee. In the organisation of the board for the control of this fund and its work, a further step forward in nationalisation and, indeed, in the direction of democracy, was made. It marks a new development in the coöperation of all the forces for good in the solution of this difficult national problem. The membership of the board includes not only Southern and Northern white men, but also several leading Negroes. The president and general director is a Southern white man, coming of an old family, James H. Dillard, dean of Tulane University of New Orleans. It will be of interest to publish here a full list of the members, because they represent, in more ways than one, the new leadership not only in the South, but in the nation:
Southern white men:
James H. Dillard, President.
David C. Barrow, chancellor University of Georgia.
Belton Gilreath, manufacturer and mine-owner, Alabama.
Dr. S. C. Mitchell, of Richmond College, Richmond, Va.
Northern white men:
Robert C. Ogden, of New York.
Andrew Carnegie, of New York.
Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia.
George McAneny, president of the City Club of New York.
William H. Taft, of Ohio.
To these must be added: