Twenty-five years in the Black Belt
By: Edwards, William James, b. 1869
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Education; Vocational education; Race relations; World War, 1914-1918; African American Participation; Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute (Ala.)
Notes: Title from TEI header.

Autobiographical narrative and history of the Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, Snow Hill, Ala.

The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America.

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Transcribed from: Twenty-five years in the Black Belt / by William J. Edwards. Boston : The Cornhill Company, c1918. xvii, 143 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm.

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Table of contents: title: Childhood days; title: Shadows; title: A ray of light; title: Life at Tuskegee; title: Reconnoitering; title: Founding the Snow Hill School; title: Small beginnings; title: Campaigning for funds in the North; title: Results; title: Origin of the Jeanes Fund; title: Appreciation; title: Graduates and ex-students; title: The solution of the Negro problem; title: The greatest menace of the South; title: The Negro exodus; title: The negro and the public schools of the South; title: Where lies the Negro's opportunity?; title: School problems of a Tuskegee graduate; title: Benefits wrought by hardships; title: The Negro and the World War.