The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-31
NEGROES NUMBER 1919
Who Are Taking Professional Courses
in Colleges of the South.


New York. Jan. 31-The field secre-
tary of the South American Missionary
association, Rev. George w. Moore of
Nashville, has made a protracted and
detailed investigation concerning the
negro in professional life. He reports
that in 1S95-s6 there were 1919 students
in professional courses in colored
schools and of these 126 were women
There were 7O3 students and 20 grad
yates in theology, 124 students and "A
graduates in law, 2S6 students and go
graduates in medicine and graduates
in pharmacy, and 126 students and 10
graduates in nurse training There were
25 schools of theology. schools of law
and schools of medicine. In addition
to these schools which have been es-
tabIished for the negro in professional
life, the doors of the leading colleges
and universities of the north, east and
west are open to him.
Since 1895 there have been 1876 gradu-
ates who received diplomas from repu-
table medical colleges, making a total
of sos This list does not include the
large number of negro men who have
graduated from northern institutions
There are II schools for training colored
women as nurses, 200 nurses have been
trained and are in training.
The Freedmen's hospital of Washing
ton, d. c., is the largest hospital in the
country open to colored people. The
medical department of Howard univer-
sity is located at this hospital 1t has
graduated 253 colored doctors. There
are 81 cOlOreQ practlclnS physicians IN
the District of Columbia
Meharry Medical college of Nashville,
Tenn, has graduated $40 men in medi-
cine, 35 in dentistry and 43 in phar-
macy. The enrolment for the present
session is 161 in the department of med-s
icine, 81 in dentistry and Is in phar-
macy. Shaw university Of Raleigh, N.
c. also has a well equipped medical
school. Able corps of coIored physi-
clans are associated with white physi-
clans as professors in five of the six
medical colleges and board in the south
for cOlOred men.
There are coIored medical associations
in several southern states; there Is also
a national association of colored physi-
clans There are quite a number of col
ored physicians and surgeons in the
United States army with the rank of
major. The law department of Howard
university is the largest and best school
in the south open to colored men, Quite
a number of colored men have gradu-
ated from the law schools of Yale, Har-
ward Boston university and the Uni
versity of Michigan. Colored lawyers
practice in many northern eastern and
western states and in the leading cities
of the south.
There are about 400 colorad lawyers
in this country. They practice in all
the courts.
About 1000 seminary trained men and
1000 more classed as educated are in
the ministry.
The majority of Congregational, ,Epis-
copal and Presbyterian ministers are
educated men but they form only a
small wing of the army of colored min
listers. There are also many intelligent
colored Methodist and Baptist minis
ters.
The bishops of the African Methodist
Episcopal, the African Methodist Epis-
cOpal Zion, and the Colored Methodist
Episcopal churches, together with their
ministers, exercise a wide influence in
their churches. Bishop B. w. Arnett,
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church and Bishop Alexander Walters
of the African NJ. E. Zion church, are
members of the board of trustees of
the United States Society of Christian
Endeavor.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
no colored bishops. J.. W. F. Bowen, D.
D., is the most representative minister
of that church. He is professor in
Cannon Theological seminary at At
lanta and was the colOred candidate
for bishop at the last general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church.
NJ. c. Mason, D. D., was elected cor
responding secretary of the Freedmen's
Aid and Southern Educational society
of that church. George w. Henderson,
d. d, a graduate of the University of
Vermont and of Yale divinity school, is
dean of the Straight university theolog-
icaI school at New Orleans.
Rev. /. B. Maxwell, graduate of At
lanta university and Hartford Theolog-
icaI seminary is field secretary of the
International Sunday work among the
colored people of the south and Rev H.
H. Proctor, a graduate of Fisk univers-
ity and Yale divinity school, is pastor
of the First Church of Atlanta, Ga, the
largest Congregational church among
the colored people in this country.
There are representative colored men
in the Baptist ministry like Walter H
Brooke, D. D., of Washington, d C,
and Rev. J. NJ. Waldron, of Jackson
Vile Fla F. ]. Grimke, D. D., of
Washington, is the leading Presbyterian
minister Howard university has grad
uated 162 in theology Talladega,
Straight, Tougeloo and Fish universi-
ties have sent forth many men into the
ministry WiIberforce, Biddle, Lincoln,
and Richmond Bible schools have also
trained many men for the ministry.