The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-10-26
Cordial
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common sense, have on hand a stock
or groceries worth about $2,7OO and
doing an annual business Of about
S'0oO. The grocery business FREEDOM
mates, Brown and Roberts and Henry
white being also in the same line.
There Is also we'll appointed and
we'll kept drug store, called the "peo-
pies Drug Store" in which DR.. II. e.
Williams Is the principal owner.
MY, Durham and DR.. Gordon Phipps
own together some valuable real es-
tate, improved and unimproved, and
large number Of people OF the Negro
race own their very and good and
comfortable homes. The town sup
ports handsomely two physicians of
color and dentist. DR.. Phipps and
DIR. w. w. Humphrey being the physi-
clans and DR.. Roderick Johnson the
dentist. DR. Humphrey, also owns a
large grocery store, which Is practical
~ managed by his estimable wife.
A wide awake, hustling Negro Bust
ness League, that would stimulate CO.
operative effort among these mer-
chants, awaken the population to a
greater responsibility in supporting
the enterprises would be welcome in
novation in this community. One
writer who came South on one of the
or the recent trips of Dr. Washing
tons expressed surprise at the large
number of Negro undertakers and at
the large amount of profit they seemed
to realize out Of their business. There
Is greater wonder here that there is
nor dry goods store, nor shoe store.
IN all these efforts the public school
has had a lasting and salient in
fluence. 1t was in Corsicana that the
first public school for colored people
was erected in Texas; it was in Corsi-
cana that Nthe first piano was placed
IN colored school, and in Corsicana
where only the industrial work was
placed in the public schools by the
efforts OF the colored people them
selves.
Prof. G. w jackson, principal of the
public schools, believing in the prin-
ciples of industrial education as ad-
vocated by Dr. Washington made. a
thorough canvass Of the homes and
churches in Corsicana and secured
contributions amounting to about $500
with which to begin that work. With
this evidence of self help, he went to
prominent white people and secured
donations sufficient to make the
amount about 5000 With this. small
industrial, work for girls was begun.
Many of these people continued their
contributions for two years until a
reaction set in, because Of the belief
= mat industrial education for girles
ought to reform labor conditions in
the community. in two years. With
dlfhculty, Prof. Jackson, with the aid
or the city superintendent, convinced
the donors that the time was not
su1hc1ent, and now, that more aid has
come TO the work, about fifty girls in
the last vacation perion who had been
trained in the domestic science WORK
at the High School found work in
the homes of the people of Corsicana
and performed that work in a far more
satisfactory manner than it had been
performed by unframed girls. The
city board took cognizance Of the work
i'm an official manner, and with the an
nual donations and the subscriptions
or colored citizens, as we'll as the
small tuition fee, the departments are
easily becoming the feature of the
This work is carried on under Prof.
Jackson's supervision, for the boys by
a Tuskegee graduate and by a gradu-
ate of Wherefore for the girls
Throughout the surrounding coun-
try, here and there a thrifty set of
colored farmers can be found. There
are several districts where for miles
the land is all owned by Negro farm