Reports from Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes
We have received from Mr. Booker T. Washington the “Nineteenth Annual Report of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, for the year ending May 31, 1900.” This leading industrial school among the colored race of the South seems to be prospering. The average attendance for last year was 1,083, from 27 States and Territories, from Africa, Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, and Barbadoes. We understand that the tendency of this school is not to augment race hatred, but so to educate the negro that he will be worthy of trust and confidence. Those interested may address the principal, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. Right in connection with this comes the “Thirty-second Annual Report of the Principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute,” Hampton, Va. This is the parent institution, and the greatest school of this kind in the country. One of the great objects of the school is to establish “the work habit— the creation of love for the work of the hand,” and to bring about “kindlier relations between the negroes and the white people of the South.” These are good.