Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1935-03-01

received the degree Phi D. from the University of Penn
sylvana at the of twentyhree. Frost B. Wilkinson
of Orangeburg s. c.. achieved highest honor from the
Senior class of Wbraham Academy Mass, being chosen
by the faculty the student who best represented the
school in courtesy carefulnes scholarship and athletics
Charles w White graduated with highest scholastic dis
tnction in class of 220 at Harved University though
handicapped by working his way through school, waiting
tables.
must mention Tuskegee Institute 1t is probably
better known the outside world than any other educa
tional institution in America 1t has 100 buildings 1000
of land faculty of 200 student body of 1000 and
annual budget of half million dollars 1t was found
ed and developed by Booker 7. Washington, nameess
Negro boy who started the school without dollar OF cap
ita 1t is managed and stated entirely by Negroes
We then can that the Negro has achieved in edu
cation and also beneficial to by helping to further
educate them and prepare better place for them to be
taught in for the betterment of the race
In the census of 1920 there 1109 Negroes IN
dentistry 1t is estimated that there 1000 Negro den
fists There associations of Negro dentists in nearly
all the states AS fact the Negro has made rapid
progress in dentistry and in the early days there were
slave men that extracted teeth Mankind has been bene-
fitted by this movement every since
In science we have than 1000 Negroes involved
In writing of science chemists one could not help
but mention Prof. George Carver, of Tuskegee Institute
He is the best chemist in all America In his work he has
accomplished many things and has developed hundreds of
products that promise untold value to the South and to
the Nation.
were made by Mr. Carver and some of these are milk,
powder cream starch and many other things that would
make the demand for peanuts great and the price great
Somehow Mr.. Carver will not sell his rights to this
great experiment will he, at the expense of greater
companies. set up business of his own
Mankind has not been benefited by Mf' CafVels III
ventions in any way.
When write of the Negro in surgery am sure any
one can readily see the mistake that make in numbering
them.
In the census of 1920 nearly 1000 Negroes were sur
eeons of which they received and achieved national
regulations surgeons One of these the late Dr. Daniel
H Williams, the first surgeon IN the world TO per-
form successful operation the human heart lie was
chosen from among all the surgeons of the u 5 A. as
one of the charter members of the American college OF
Surgeons organized in Chicago in 1913
In the last twenty years the health OF Negroes mas
improved greatly as the result Of medical attention and
more intelligent and sanitary methods of living In the
twelve wears from 1910 to 1927 the death rate of Negroes
decreased 80 per cent their death rate for tubercu
oss decreased fifty cent Since l9lz the lle span OIL
Negroes has increased five years.
At the close of the Civil War there were very lew IN
dependent colored churches Negroes now have 425o5
churches with 52O34S7 members more and $4,000 Sun
day Schools enrolling 2144000 pupils. More than $4,000
of these churches with 100000 MEMBERS connected
with independent Negro denominations. Of these the
Baptss the largest group with 2208 churches and
3,196623 members number Of independent Methodist
bodies next, with 1000 churches and 100000 men,
bers The property Of the independent Negro churches
is valued at S168 000000 The 5000 Negro churches
which connected with white denominations have a
membership of $4,000.
member of the Negro denomination carry on mis-
sion work in Africa South America and West Indies One
of these reports 1876 mission stations 29 churches and
10000 members in foreign lands. In the T. s. A they
support 200 home missionaries and aiding $50 needy
churches They contribute annually about $550000 tc
! home and foreign missions.
Negro the Methodist
pal Churches in five years contributed $1,94979 to tbs
Centenary Mission Fund of that church which was a
higher percentage their apporonment than was raised
! by the 100000 white Methodsts. The South Florida
Mission Conference Coored led the whole Methodist de
nomination in proportionate giving to this cause
Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago is said to be the
largest Protestant congregation in the world having
membership of 10000. 1t carries extensive com
munity program having SO departments and employing
thirty paid workers It's annual operating budget is about
$4,000
Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta, is probably
the largest church the South and of the largest