The sun., 1893-07-16
NEW YORK'S NEGRO SCHOOLS.
Color LIVES FADED WHERE BLACKS
PERIsHED IN THE DRAFT RIO1a

| HbhIShbD 4N khb OAtNS1
National Feeling OF the Young Sons OF Han
| Tendency or the Negro boys 90 foF"'
| Themselves Into Patriotic Assocfsio1s.
Tho negroes OF this city may be separated into
| two general divisions: Those who are industri-
| GUS and desire to rise above the racial pref
udiccs which are the results and remaining
| in guences OF slavery; and those who. without
| any occupation save that OF odd Jobs, have no
| ambition toward rising In the social scale. of
| the latter, certain class of colored people In
| the vicinity OF Bleecker street and South F1ftn
avenue are typo. They have no occupaion;
many OF thcm are criminals, and none OF them
are useful citizens. or have any desire to be-
come such.
1t IS the first mentioned class that 10 now
endeayoring. by self-improvement and edu-
cation. to provo itself worthy Of being
reckoned On the same footing as its white
follows 1t is this class whose children hll
the schools, and themselves are organizing
in clubs and societies. or the distinctively
negro public shoots there are two-one on
Forty. second street, between Seventh and
Eighth avenues. and the other on seventeenth
street. between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
These schools have no white pupils. and oil
the teachers are colored. The one on Forty
second street, Of which Mrs Etc is principal
has about 175 scholars. who are instructed IN
the various common branches. This school
draws mostly from West Forty-seventh and
Forty ninth streets and the vicinity. It has been
in existence though not In It's present locality.
for about forty years.
or the Seventeenth street school Mrs 3 ]. g.
Garnet, widow OF Henry Highland Garnet. II
principal Like the other school 1t Is under
the control OF the Board Of Education. and 10
run on the same principle as all other public
schools. Owing to the tendency on the part OF
the colored residents Of the crowded tenement
district in West Twenty-seventh and adjacent
streets to move up town. where there Is moro
room this school has fallen of in numbers OF
late years. There are still about 100 pupils.
OF the colored pupils o largo proportion 70
into commercial pursuits or become artisans.
A few Of the boys enter the City College after
graduation. and about the same proportion OF
the girls 60 through the Normal School The
negro scholars are apt to be quicker ct read.
ing, spelling, and geography than ut mathe.
matics. and are particularly clever at drawing.
the colored school exhibits In this branch be-
ing Of n noticoably high grade.
Besides their educational advantages. the
schools serve good purpose in that they tend
to hold the coored people together and to form
ties that aid them in organizing. Among the pu-
pills In tho schools nearly as many are children
OF parents who have recently come ND from
the South as Of parents who are native New
Workers. and through the children tho two
classes assimilate. OF the most prominent
colored men and women In this city large
proportion are graduates Of these institutions.
One OF the ideas impressed upon these
school children is the necessity Of securing
for themselves and their fellows recognition as
valued citizens OF the community without
prejudice on account OF their color. Out Of this
feeling. as much as from their natural ten-
dency, to draw together. their organizations
I5ions Of Afro Americans rellgious; social and
literary. and OF these q few are worthy Of mon
hs Ss., q hS q 1s soes1 81 Ss ss.
Yfs hh h its ha aSS hS' & a Ss
but colored men born IN New York State ara
eligible The club pDbshed some years Hso
Its aims and purposes. is taken:
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fopned similar organizations and yet no thouRht
Of III. % 1o oos
pc ido., ana there is NO valid reason why It should
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1ton thereby recognising the truth that this great
smSr.tSp , Of che blood and brain and muscis
for
Tho club house onrWest Fifty-third street
% roomy and pretttly furnished. A library OF
ooO volumes was given to tho club few
[n months ago by number OF ladies who are In
among other members are William a. Rosa.
WiiIlam Y M H. Carter; Thomas b. Francis, George
\. Titus. James T. Williams. Hannibal Ritter,
Peter Anderson. William r, Jackson. Edward
d. Lawrense. Ny and Samuel Manning;
Womens Loyal Union. This is an association
p colored women without political bias, GJrfn-
Ia for the purpose Of influencing publtsc opin-
~ IN iey3r OF the negroes. and In pn1tticular to
rlfing to the public mind a sense 81 the injus.
So, ead ma GWEataiity Wst OF the lyne>hngs in the
Npthss. organization of se1ored people is
Iona Island to be known2as the Garnet Me.
h9a 9arp hone. ~ n mtbsmorLof Henry HiGhiand
arge nembershtp There are such a large
A. nun n bes Of social ESlgious and political or;
sanlIaaons Of sm1ll size among the colored
people o. this citYthat it would be difficult to
I1 ana a eolored imam who is not q member Of
ion makes f6r the higher education Of the
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