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A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE
Tuskegee Normal School, Ala.; Wilberforce Uni¬
versity, Ohio; Virginia Normal and Collegiate
Institute; Kittrell's Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute, and Shaw University, except its President,
who is white, but one of the first Presidents to
recognize the ability of young colored men to
teach the higher branches. Dr. H. M. Tupper
inaugurated a movement by putting young colored
men at work in Shaw University, which has been
followed by many of the other schools supported by
donations from white friends in the North. The
plan works admirably well, and, besides teaching
the race to confide in the ability of its own educated
men and women, it affords lucrative employment to
many who are by nature and choice fitted for the
work of teaching.
A Self-made Man is a worthy description when
applied to a Saxon. But a knowledge of the facts
will teach us that nine-tenths of all the leading Ne¬
groes were and are self-made. The royal road to
knowledge is beyond question closed to the young
colored man.
There is No Large Estate to draw on for
school bills; no rich uncle or kinsman to foot the
bill and wait till success in after years for a settle¬
ment. His own brawny muscle is usually the young
colored student's means of support. Many of them
work in school between hours. In fact, most of the
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