The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
GIVES VARDAMAN,
EVEN, HIS Due
CoLoRED EDUCATOR COMMENDs
FIGHT AGAINST LYNCHING.
Head of Plantation School in the Black
Belt Comes to Minneapolis to Raise
Funds for Maintaining the Work
Masses of Negro Children Growing
Up in Ignorance.

Professor S. J. Hunter, founder and
Mcleod, Miss, is spending a few days
in Minneapolis as The guest of Mrs.
Della Wright, 1925 Twelfth avenue S.
He is here in the interests of his school,
which is largely supported by contribu-
lions from white people of his own state
and northern cities.
Mr.. Hunter jumped into prominence
last February at Milwaukee, by stand
ing in convention Of colored men as
Mississippi, who stands for the prin-
ciple of no education and no political
rights for the negro. Speaking of Gov
ernor VardamaT today, MI. Hunter
said:
II never agreed with him in his
views about suffrage and education and
never undertook to defend him on that
score. What I did say, and still main
| tain, is that Governor Vardaman has
| interest of the colored people that Mis-
sissippi has ever had. One Of his first
official acts was to come to the rescue
of colored man about to be lynched in
the capital city Of Jackson, and he has
given it out that while he is governor
he will do his utmost to see that every
negro has fair trial. He has reduced
the lynching record, and he has pro
tected the right Of the negro in his
| ing that the colored man s house shall
be his castle so long as he is gov
ernOr.'
In a Hotbed of Ignorance.
Mr.. Hunter wakes eloquent in telling
about the work of his school, which does
not attempt to turn out highly educated
young people, but to teach the children
of the ''b1ack belt'' to improve the re-
of themselves. The school is on plan
tation eight miles from the railroad
with crude buildings, and tho not a pub
lie school it is free. In Noxubee county
there are $4,000 colored children OF
school age, Of whom only half attend
public school. The Noxubee school has
$50 scholars, and is trying to lift
portion Of the young people to selfihelP
The main building, which was relic Of
the pup pills are now without schoo
building. The last school year closee
with an indebtedness Of 1865, the leas1
in it's history of eight years, but funds
are needed at once to rebuild the schoo
building, as we'll as to maintain tn
| school the coming year. Mr.. Hunte
visited Minneapolis in 1900 and spok'
IN several OF the CnuTCIeS, duu o1uC'
that time has received annual contribu
lions from score or more of Mime
apolitans. He is deeply in earnest owe
the need of lifting the population OF tn
black belt from their present condition
of helpless responsibility.
Would Teach Them Trades.
"We are trying to teach these chill
dren to help Themselves he said to
day. "Besides the common branche
we teach the girls cooking and house
keeping and the boys agriculture, and i
we can get the money for shops an
tools we will teach the boys trades O
all kinds. 49," ~ ~.
} "The negro problem is as great nov
as it was forty years ago, and promise
to be the overshadowing question Of on
country. The Industrial and trainin
schools of the south are doing grea
work, but most Of them draw their pr
pills from the more Intelligent class 9
? colored people, and those who are abb
=. to some extent to pay" their way. 1t
, the people back on the plantations, VIII
| know nothing Of the outside world an
\ are living and multiplying in ignoranc
: and hel pfessness, without even the cal
I and restraint Of the old slavery day
e that need to. be reached by educatio
D and train1np'