The colored American., 1903-03-07

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hls lecture course is free to the public,
it would not be a bad idea If a number
| Of the citizens of the town, whites as
| we'll as blacks, visit the school, and
| While lending to it the moral support
| If their presence, in view of the effort
| being made to arise the tone and
| dignity of the only state school for
Negroes in Arkansas, see what kind OF
man has come here to direct the for
times of the Negroes State Institution.
That Il man so young as Principal
Fisher should be called to the head
| ship CT a State School, and that he is
successfully conducting it in the face
OF rather trying circumstances, ought
TO re al inspiration to the young Ne
groeS Of the state, and a constant re-
min Ter that there is good honorable
employment in the South for any Ne
gro who will prepare himself for use
fulness- No better opportunity will be
offered the Pine Bluff public to guage
md estimate the ideals of this new
educator in the state than is now offer
I'd to all. Go and hear broad subjects
discussed by a man who IS probably
he youngest head of a State School in
the country
The newspaper just quoted, has
made arrangements with Mr. Fisher to
publish extracts from his lectures un-
Ill the course is completed: and he has
been obliged to purchase cuts of him
self for the exclusive use of this white
newspaper.
The Arkansas Gazette published at
Little Rock, and the leading news
paper in the state, had this to say of
II" Fisher:
Having called attention to the edu-
;ations' opportunity offered Arkansas
n the Incorporation of the General
education Board, by Congress, the
Gazeil- is glad to learn that there is
great interest IN the movement in this
State, and that efforts have been mades
already looking to having Arkansas in
-iUded in the states that will receive
alC from the board. In one way, a Ne
gro institution has led in getting in
touch with the General Education
Board. Isaac Fisher, principal of the
Branch Normal College. at Pine Bluff,
has already communicated with the
chairman of the board calling atten-
ION to education in Arkansas; and a
representative of the board has visited
he Branch Normal and made careful
investigation of the schools needs. We
fazard the opinion that the Branch
| Normal will receive aid from the
board. So far as we know, the General
| Education Board crossed the Missis-
| sippi River for the first. time when it
SeCC an agent TO look at the institution
at Pine Bluff
Referring again to the lecture course
| which Mr.. Fisher outlined it may not
| be cut of place to remark that his ad-
| dress THE Claims OF brotherhood
Have You Satisfied Them?" a subject
which dealt with the duties of whites
| and blacks, each to each, was con-
| sidered such an able one that the Mem
phis Commercial Appeal referred to it
as "A splendid address by thoughtful
| educator to his pupils on the race
| question:, and gave considerable space
| TO comments On the doctrines set forth
| in the address. A~llttle more than a
year ago Mr.. Fisher spoke in the Court
| House in Vicksburg, Mississippi. with
| tEa Mayor of the town, on the subject:
THE White South's Opportunity and
| the Negroes New Duties Commenting
Oh this, the New York Evening Post
said:
| 'One of the most striking and en-
| couraging developments in the South
| is tn 2 grC wing readiness of representa-
| tive white men to hear addresses on
| the subject of race relations by repre-
sentative cOlOred men. In such a city
as Vicksburg, Mississippi, a large and
| appreciatlve audience recently gather
ed 10 hear an address by a graduate of
| Tuskegee Institute on the subject