The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-09-05
WILL MAKE a GRAND EXHIBIT.
The Negro at the Approaching Great
Atlanta Exposition.

WILL MAKE a GRAND EXHIBIT.
The Negro at the Approaching Great
Atlanta Exposition.
To the Editors of the SENTINEL
w. G. Coleman, Chief Commission
er on behalf of the colored exhibit
from North Carolina at the Atlanta
Exposition. S. G.. Atkins. Secretary,
and a number of other commissions
ers have just returned from New,
bern whittier they had gone to reps
resent the North Carolina exhibit at
the Atlantis Exposition.
The coiored commissioners for the
State held meeting In Newborn on
Thursday and made arrangements
with the officers Of the Newbern COLI
ored Fair Association to send their
exhibit IN bulk directly to Atlanta
to- be installed In the North Carolina
space. The collection is a fine one
and it will give the negro exhibit at
Atlanta decided send off.
The colored people of the State are
thoroughly aroused on the subject
of the Exposition. Secretary At,
kins and Prof. C.. 81. Moore, of
Greensboro, spoke at Durham Fri
day night and the people were great
ly stirred up on the subject.
The same interest is manifest
throughout the State. The colored
people of leading towns of the State
including Asheville, Wilmington,
Charlotte, Fayetteville and Green's
boro are making strenuous efforts to
represent their race creditably at
this great Fair.
They are determined to show by
this effort not only that they have
prospered in the South In the last
twenty >fiye years, but they are pres
pared to be a factor in the further
development of the Southland.
They propose to give to The world
sistable argument that the South is
to be the negro's permanent home,
in which he is to work his highs
est and most praiseworthy destiny.
! 1t is an admitted fact that the rela>
| tons between the races in North
| Carolina have been better and more
wholesome in North Carolina than
in any other Southern State, and
| our colored friends of the cold
North State" propose to show by
| tangible evidences in this Exposition
that they have valued the opportu
mites which have come to them I'M
der these excellent conditions. Not
all the counties and cities will be
fully represented; but there will be
enough of the counties and cities
represented by exhibits to make the
lovers of the State proud of the
progress its coIored population has
made, especially along Industrial,
educational, and social lines.
The exhibit will show what is be>
ing done IN some of the leading col~
ored schools of the State; what the
colored people have been doing in
the development of their social life
from the one room log cabin devoid
often of the evidences of high moral
ity and refinement, to the we'll ape
pointed cottage home full of these
evidences; what they have done in
! the development of their industrial
life-in improved farms and general
handicraft; also what they have &C
| complished in their church life, as
will be represented by photographs
of their many splendid church edi-
fees throughout the South. All of
this will show beyond contradiction
that the negro in the South and in
North Carolina has had the help and
co operation of his white neighbors
in his effort to rise in the scale of
civilization.
Their exf1ihIt wall include farm
products, wood work, iron and meIe
al work, needle work, art work,
photographs OF all kinds of INDUS
trial or educational establishments
owned or operated by neg soes; also
live stock, poultry, domestic and
wild animals, fish and fish culture,
AS to their intellectual progress it
will include a synopsis of the actual
work done in their schools-such as
examination papers, specimens of
compositions, oratiOns, drawings:
| also specimens of the products of
their schools, III wood, metals etc.
Every possible evidence of pro
gress will be noted, and some actual
tangible representation of the same
| secured for this exhibit.
The North Carolina negro propo~
SEES to be to the front when the Fair
is opened.