Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1907-05-24
IoWA'S COLLEGE AND PROFESS
SIGNAL SCHOOL NEGRO GRAD
YATES.
BY Atty. S. Joe Brown.

In view of the fact that 1t Is so
often stated that the Negroes OF the
south are outstripping those OF the
north in the acquisition OF nj sher eu'
ucation it may be OF interest 10 tne
readers of The Bystander 10 KNOW
that out of the ten or twelve thousand
Negroes in the state of Iowa quite
respectable proportion have taken de-
prees from the various colleges and
professional schools of the state.
Perbaps the first two Negroes TO
take professional degrees IN iowa
we're the venerable Alexander Clark,
late minister to Liberia, and the Kew
DR., A. II, Higgs, now presiding eider
os the St Joseph district OF the Nj. +.
church which includes the city OF
na- Ntoines These gentlemen re-
cejved the degree OF Bachelor OIL Law
from the State University at iowa
City in the year 1876.
About the same year Prof. n: =
Healing, now editor OF the A. NJ t.
church Review. and Prof Z. L. Black
shear now president of the Texas
state Normal School. received the de-
gree Of Bachelor of Arts from razor
College at Tabor, Iowa.
In 1880 this same school conferred
a similar degree on Rev ". n
Spf csc, now minister OF the \. NJ.
Z church. ~.
From Wesleyan University at MI.
Pleasant there have been louF NesIo
women graduates in the persons VI
Mrs s. Mosby Grandson. A: N,
Misses Agnes and Louise Mason oo'h
~ which are Bachelors OF Science,
and eli three of which still reside IN
M Pleasant. and Miss Ida MAY God
fr-v T. s. BOW primary principal III
Kansas CITY, no
Frou1 Iowa College at Grinneil We
only know Of one. Mr. Leo "eIkeT' "A:
II. who will receive the degree o!
Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Uni
yersity next month, but we under
stand that there have been olheT We
gro graduates from this school.
From the State Agricultural College
at Ames there has been Prof. Geo
Carver, B. S. now professor OF Agri'
culture at Tuskegee. and Mr.. +. T.
Parks who holds the same degree
and is now director OF Applied Asrf
culture at Tuskegee.
From Drake University there are
Attorney /. E. Williamson, LII. b..
now in Washington, D. c.; Prof. Geo /
|. Holt. LII. B.; Editor John l..
Thomson. LII. B.. and DR.. Z. A Lee. :
u. D. s., all residents Of Des MONIES.
Mr.. l.. L. Henderson. Pm. b.. now pro
fessor OF Psychology in Oklahoma
University, and Rev. NJ. w. Thornton.
Il d.. now a minister Of the A. NJ. +.
church.
OF the more recent graduates OF the
State University are Attorney >. Joe
Brown. 4. NJ. LII. b., now OF D2s
Moines; Attorney H. r. Wright, Ll..
B.. now United States consul at IT'LL
la, Honduras, and Mr.. Edward a. Car
ter, Phi. b., who will receive the de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine from the
same school next month.
There are also several Negro col
lege bred or professional men who
are not products Of iowa schools,
among whom are Attorney Geo. n.
Noodson of Oskaloosa. who is an A.
B of Petersburg College and an LII.
B. of Howard University; DR.. a. q.
Edwards of Des Moines and DR.. J. II.
Williams of Buxton, both of whom
are graduates of Malaria Medical
College at Nashville, and Dr. G. Sum-
ner Taylor of Buxton who is grad
uate of Howard University Medical
College; Prof. NJ. J. Gillian, A. b., OF
Cornell University; Miss Lydia Lock
ridge A. B., Of Kansas University,
both of whom are connected with the
public schools of Buxton; Rev. w. S.
Brooks, ID. D.. of Morgan College,
baltimore, NJ d., now pastor of the
A NJ. f. church. Des Moines and Rev
II w Porter. A. B.. of Talladega col
lege. Alabama. now pastor OF the
Union Congregational church. Des
Moines: Mr.. G. J. Wiley, Buxton, civil
engineer Of Lincoln University, Penn
There are also in the State Univer
sty two other Negroes who will re-
ceive degrees at the commencement
next month and who we feel should
therefore be mentioned here They
are Mr.. e. W. Thompson of Dcs
Mones, who will graduate from the
College of Pharmacy, and Mr.. L. G.
Jones of Marshalltown. who will grad
uate from the College of Liberal Arts.
and there are probably others of
whom the writer has no knowledge,
but we feel that these are sufficient
to justify our statement made in the
beginning that the Negroes Of Iowa
had quite a resDectable proportion Of
college bred and professional people.
for it must be remembered that only
forty years ago we had none what
ever and that the accepted proportion
of college bred people among the
most favored race of Americans is one
in five thousand.