Chartered Institutions, 8.—Hampton N. and A. Institute, Hampton, Va.: Number of pupils, 332; boarding accommodations for 180. Berea College, Berea, Ky.: Number of pupils, 273; boarding accommodations for 180. Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.: Number of pupils, 338; boarding accommodations for 150. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.: Number of pupils, 244; boarding accommodations for 150. Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.: Number of pupils, 272; boarding accommodations for 100. Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss.: Number of pupils, 193; boarding accommodations for 90. Straight University, New Orleans, La.: Number of pupils, 287; no boarding accommodations. Normal Institute, Austin, Texas: Number of pupils, 146.
Other Institutions, 11.—Normal School, Wilmington, N. C.: Number of pupils, 126; Washington School, Raleigh, N. C., 435; Avery Institute, Charleston, S. C., 294; Brewer Normal School, Greenwood, S. C., 58; Storrs’ School, Atlanta, Ga., 701; Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., 93; Trinity School, Athens, Ala., 158; Emerson Institute, Mobile, Ala., 117; Swayne School, Montgomery, Ala., 436; Burrell School, Selma, Ala., 421; Le Moyne School, Memphis, Tenn., 184; Common Schools, 18;—total, 37.
Whole number of pupils, 7,229. Scholars in the South, taught by our former pupils, estimated at 100,000.
Whole number of churches in the South, 64.—Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 5; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 12; Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 13; Louisiana, 12; Mississippi, 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5.
Whole number of church members, 4,189.
From this exhibit it will be seen that eight of the schools are chartered, and contain nearly two thousand students. Four of them are of college grade, and are doing regular college work. The other schools are of Normal grade, and designed to bring forward, as rapidly as possible, the teachers for the untaught millions. They are all children of the Association, and in them are gathered up the fruits of Congregational liberality and labor in behalf of the colored race. These schools are an enduring investment for this work, and hold property in buildings, lands, apparatus and endowments, to the value, probably, of eight hundred thousand dollars. It should be said, however, that many of the buildings were put up by aid from the Freedmen’s Bureau; but this aid was set apart as the proportion of the public moneys which should appropriately flow through Congregational channels. The churches established in the South are a result of the same effort. Their chapels and houses of worship represent a money value of fifty thousand dollars more. What Congregationalism has to show is in these permanent institutions for the mental and moral training of the colored people. It is not all that is needed, but it is an investment of inestimable value, and one which will compare favorably with the work of any other denomination, for thorough educational and religious work among the enfranchised race.
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Dudley, N. C.—“We have quite a class of teachers in the school, and I have spent a part of each day with them. I induced one of the young men I found in Woodbridge to come here for the present. He has had but little schooling, but is far ahead of all the young people here and has taught several terms. He is now commencing Latin and Algebra. He desires to fully fit himself for work among his people, and his present idea is to devote himself to teaching. He has a splendid voice and has never had any drill. One great object in bringing him here was to train his voice and give him instrumental lessons, and he is doing finely. Another was to secure him, if possible, to us, and find a chance for him in one of the A. M. A. Colleges. Is there any way of getting help for such a young man?”