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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:A Comparisionthe cause of organized educational effort among Negroes.By WALTER CHIVERSJ WAS THE GUEST last weekof the Tennessee Negro Teachers Association and the A and I State teachers’ annual meeting. H was well organized, orderly andintensely interesting. least 95 per cent of the time was devoted to treatment of the conventiontheme, ’Education for Living”. Thegeneral sessionsand departmen-t a l meetings were exceeding. ly well attended The Tennessee teachers have been inspired by dynamic, courageous and sincere leadership to take ihe profession of teaching seriously.TALK TO ASSEMBLY'P:iday morning, i talked to the general assembly on the topic “Education of Negroes for Living in the Changing Social Order”. Immediately following me was the address of Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, President of Howrard University and a native Tennessean. Dr.Johnson’s penetrating analysis of the qualities necessary for successful teaching in secondary and elementary schools and his plea forthe professional interest in theprofession were appreciated and discussed in the after-session groups.IiiCHIVERSNot only were there guest speakers for the general assemblies butthe various departments had guestspeakers of authority. On the opening night the audience heard Harper Council Trenholm, president of State Teachers College, Montgomery, Alabama and the nonsalaried executive secretary of the American Teachers Association plead, as an evangelist, the cause of Negro education and urge organization as the vehicle for promoting this cause. He is rapidlybecoming the “human dynamo” oifriendly, sportsmanlike, competitive campaign, for officers, beingwaged. There was not. the slightest sign of bitterness exhibited and no interruption of meetings, one could not have known (here was a campaign by the objective evidences. for there were none.This convention was a rich andsatisfying experience. It made mewonder whether oi no I civilizatkm^The annual banquet address wasdelivered by Mr. j. E. Walker, President of the Universal Life Insurance Company and the National Negro Business League. Mr. Walker’s address was most effective because he was first a teachei and then a business man. 1 was iold that he has constantly manifested an intelligent and materialinterest in education for Negroyouth.Aaded dignity was given to theannual banquet by the “presentation of persons eligible to receivecertificates of merit for 25 years of service in Negro schools in Tennessee”. The certificates have standing and are highly valued bythe recipients.NO BITTERNESSIn the midst of this full and interesting- progv^m there was ahad reached Tennessee Negroes anj be?n embraced by them before it got to Georgia. However, I know' that this is net true for there are multitudinous evidences of the fact that Georgia Negroes are highly civilized. They suffer by com-oarison though from the “illiterate actions of their state teachers’ organization.This column extends congratulations to the teachers of Tennesseeand the officers of their assortf-tion. Special mention shouldmade of President Joe Thomas, Fxecutive Secretary. Dr. George W. Gore. Honorary President, W. J.Hale and Executive Committee Chairman. George W. Brooks.There is working harmony between the State Department ofEducation of Tennessee and the Negro teachers which is due, in the main, to the philosophy of race relations held by Mr. W. E. Turner, State Director of Negro Education. Mr. Turner is popular among the Negro teachers—verymuch so—because he believes inequal educational opportunities,equal qualifications for teachers,equal accomodations for studentsand equal salaries for teachers.!
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Phoenix Index
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Apr 26, 1941
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