Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-24
SCHOOL AT MANASSAS
INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTION FOR
coLoRED YOUTH.
Meeting Next Week In Its Interest
The Work Of Jennie
Dean.

Thanksgiving night, Thursday. November
20. public meeting by the William Lloyd
Garrison Association of the District of Co
lumbia will. be held In the largest colored
church In South Washington, the Zion Bap-
fist, street between Sd and ~ streets, In
the interest Of the Manassas Industrial
School for Colored Youth. Rev. william j.
Howard. the pastor Of the church, is q
member of the board Of directors of the
school and chairman of its ways and means
committee.
Recorder of Deeds John C. Dancy will de-
liver an address - Miss Jennie Dean, the
founder of the Manassas school. will speak;
Robert H. Terrell. ]. p, will explain the
aims and objects Of the William Lloyd Gar
rison Association, and Rev. Mr.. Howard
will tell about the Manassas school and
how 1t Is aiming to meet the negro problem.
Music will be furnished by the choir of the
church.
Most Washington people now know the
story of the founding Of the Manassas
schooEhow a poor country girl came to
the city to earn her living, and seeing the
advantages of schools here. yet convinced
her people ought not to leave their coun-
try homes and pursuits to have their chill
dren educated, formed the purpose of
building them school in the coun-
try so they could remain in the country
and send their children to q good school
at home. Such was the starting of the
Manassas school by Jennie Dean 1t
opened In 1894 and has graduated eleven
classes into useful pursuits. President
Roosevelt personally commended Miss
Deans work when she was introduced to
him at the White House by Rev. Edward
Everett Hale last winter.
The William Lloyd Garrison Association
is composed of both white and colored
friends of Miss Dean and her school It's
officers are George H. White, president:
MRS. Mary L. Meriwether, first vice pres
ident; Robert II. Terrell second vice pres
ident: Charles R. Douglass treasurer, and
w. b. Evans, secretary At the meeting
Thanksgiving night r. III. Terrell will pre-
side.
Miss Dean Relates Experiences.
Miss Jennie Dean. founder of the school.
made an address yesterday afternoon at
the home Of Mrs. Daniel Paul, 1861 Park
street northwest, who is corresponding sec
rotary of the Was hington Manassas Indus
trial School Association. There were
number of ladies and gentlemen interested
In the work in attendance. At the open
ing Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, one of the
vice presidents of the organization, spoke
briefly of the work done by Miss Dean.
She declared that the work going on at
Manassas should receive better support
from the people of Washington. and THAT
schools of Hampton and Tuskegee.'
Later when Miss Dean spoke she related
her efforts when the school was founded
and of the subsequent work of upbulding.
She impressed upon her hearers the neces-
sfty of doing something for the education Of
the colored children of the south so that
they may be able to help themselves in their
after life. She stated that no more suitable
place for the founding of the school could
have been found than that os the historic
battlefield of Bull Run. Miss Dean stated
that her parents had been in the midst of
slavery and that as she grew up she saw
the need of doing something to aid the COL
ored children to procure such an education
as would be of great benefit to them.
She called attention to the fact that peo-
pie of Manassas Va. had recently refused
the offer of several New York; men to erect
q high school in the town, and stated that
she wished they had made such an offer
to Jennie Dean for the Manassas Indus
trial School,"