The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-02-14

tell YOU about "your people" and
how they are getting along, and viii
invite you to stay ana take a meal
with them, but just as soon as the
time comes to eat, he and his teachers
will go in the front door, appoint al
student to take you around the side
way, to the same dining-room, and
have you sit at the table with the
farm manager and his family, while
he and his white teachers hold them
selves at a table for white folks only
in the same room
Now thisis not a joke, and l do
not like this kind of treatment for
our people, but 1 find this kind Of
thing going on in some few OF
schools. Last fall I was in Holly
Springs, Miss, and you will recall I
told you about visiting Rust Univer-
sity. and about the fine body of stu
dents, and I thank God for them all.
It was indeed gratifying to see them
and to talk with them. Then I wit
messed a football game, and at night
went to a birthday party given in
honor of Father" Adams. Now, at
this school I found a white table and
a colored table. President Bookings
and the white teachers were at n
table and the colored teachers and
colored guests were at another table.
They would not mix, and good Presi-
dent Bookings got in the way to see
that they did not mix.
DR.. Bookings in another one Of
those me nwho could fill a position at
some other point to a better advan-
tage. I cannot blame him for all that
has gone on at Rust University, for
he had to follow a man who could
just smile all over his face when you
went to see him, but ne always kept
you out of the way. He was not kill
ed with kind treatment Of Negroes,
and perhaps he never will be. He
himself is a fine man, but he has to
deal with a wife who is said to be
as full Of prejudice as a tick Is full
of human blood. She is always dean.
l am sure you are wanting to know
the man now, and since you want to
know I will have to say 1t is DR.. w.
w. Foster, who is now president of
Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. / am
not going to say too much about him,
now because he has q nice fat job and
I do not want to throw a straw In
his way. He made the colored stu
dents go to the back door when they
wanted to see him at Rust Univer-
sity, but he may not be doing this
in Clark. and I do not want to suggest
1t. He has been out of the work
among the freedmen for a little while
and he may have reformed. They
are in Atlanta, and the Negroes Of
Clark will not stand for any foolish
ness, for they have had a taste of a
colored president once, and it is hard
to get out Of it. They will not stand
for any monkey business from presi-
dent or any n else.
Now I I'm not doing much cussing.
hit have stated facts, and will let
the rest take care Of itself. You see
I an still doing some getting around,
and I hope to continue for few weeks
to come. I have been to Vicksburg.
and 1t has been over a year since I
was there until last week. I Just rode
over there on Sunday morning and
went directly to the home of DR.. e.
p. Jones. district grand master of
Odd Fellows. I was going to preach
for him Sunday night, but it rained
so hard that I could not.
I had the pleasure Of looking
through the church erected by Rev.
John J. Morant, D. D. He has erect
ed a monument. Just to think he
has remained in one church seven
years, and the people wanted him
back another year, but the discipline
would not permit Bishop Conner to
return this good man. The church
will stand, and it is one Of the best
churches in Mississippi owned by our
neople. There Is a nice little debt
there. and Rev. Edward Wittenburg
is pastor.
Well, after visiting Rev. A. M. John
son and others I left for this place,
and arriving here, I was assigend by
Rev. J. r. Campbell to spend my week
at the home Of Mrs. M. A. Piper.
She is a widow and well fixed. She
has two SONS and two daughters. Mrs
Nellie Gable is one daughter and she
lives at Point Coupee. La, and her
husband is just a good man. earning
support for his family. Henry Piper
has also taken unto himself a wife
and has been blessed with three chill.
dren.
I must tell you about Miss Eliza A
PiDer, who is n graduate from Tuske.
e Institute. 1908. She is a trained
nurse, knows dress making and can
cook. She is Just n of the finest
young women in this part Of the
country. and is right by the side OF
her mother in life. Aaron Piper Is
also q Tuskegee graduate, is a railway
mail clerk. I do not know just what
that is, but I am told it Is a big jot
working for the government. He
rides about on the iron horses and
fves nm the letters. and sees that they
20 where they are sent to-, He rides
between Kansas City and st. Louis.
THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN.
In the current number of the South.
ern Workman published BY the Hamp
ton Institute Press) is a paper by az
educated Indian, Henry Roe Cloud
on Some Social and Economic AS
pects of the Reservation" which
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